Stone Age
Stages
Stages
This era is known as the “Old Stone Age,” when people used simple stone tools and hunted and gathered for food.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
The movement of people or animals from one place to another.
What is migration?
The act of growing crops and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
The ability to understand and make sense of what you read or hear.
What is comprehension?
Early humans lived in caves and used simple stone tools.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This era is called the “New Stone Age,” when farming and villages began.
What is the Neolithic Era?
This describes people who move around instead of settling in one place.
What is nomadic?
The process of taming animals and plants to be useful for humans.
What is domestication?
Thinking about your own thinking—understanding how you learn best.
What is metacognition?
People who travel from place to place following food sources are called ___.
What is nomadic?
This term means a major change that completely transforms how people live.
What is a revolution?
The opposite of nomadic—when people live in one permanent place.
What is sedentary?
Searching for and collecting wild food sources.
What is foraging?
Briefly explaining the main ideas of a text in your own words.
What is summarization?
Staying in one place, often to farm, describes which lifestyle?
What is sedentary?
The time before people invented writing is known as this.
What is prehistory?
The process of adjusting to survive in a new environment.
What is adaptation?
Farming began during this era.
What is the Neolithic Era?
This skill helps you check if you actually understand what you’ve read.
What is comprehension?
The process of training animals for human use, like cows or sheep.
What is domestication?
This process of farming and domesticating animals led to big changes in early human life.
What is agriculture?
Early humans changed their behavior and tools to survive in different climates—this is an example of what?
What is adaptation?
This shift from foraging to farming changed human history forever.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
When students plan how to study, monitor their understanding, and reflect afterward, they are using what skill?
What is metacognition?
Name two major changes that happened during the Neolithic Era.
What are farming and settling in villages?