Migration
Early Man
Vocab
Prehistory
Riddles
100

What is hunting and gathering?

How nomads (prehistoric people) got their food.

100

What is the importance of Africa?

Where early humans originated from

100

What is era did farming and herding begin?

Neolithic Era

100

What are prehistoric times?

Time before people learned to write.

100

What can you catch but not throw?

A cold

200

What is an artifact?

A object created and used by humans.

200

Why did early humans create cave paintings?

To recorded their stories

200

What is fossil?

A part or imprint of something that was once alive

200

What is the Neolithic Age?

The New Stone Age

200

What goes up but never comes back down?

Your age

300

What did fire allow early humans to do?

The discovery gave them protection from the climate and cook their food.

300

What is a secondary source?

Information gathered by someone who did not take part or witness the event  

300

What is the Paleolithic era?

The Old Stone Age is also called the

300

What did early humans create their tools and weapons with?

Stone

300

If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. What am I?

A mirror

400

Where did hominids originate?

Africa

400

Name two ways to use fire:

Warmth and cooking food

400

What is domestication?

When human train animals to be useful to humans

400

What is historians?

People who study history

400

What starts with a ‘P’, ends with an ‘E’, and has thousands of letters?

Post Office

500

What is migrating?

When people moved from one place to another in search of food and warmer climate they were doing this.

500

A clay pot is an example of an:

Artifact

500

What is agricultural revolution?

The shift from hunters and gathers to farming.

500

If a person witnessed or took part in an event they are the:

Primary Source

500

What word begins with E and ends with E, but only has one letter?

Envelope