Hunter-Gatherers
A prehistoric person who hunted animals and gathered wild plants to survive.
What is a Hunter-Gatherer?
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
A method of controlling water by a series of ditches and canals.
What is irrigation?
A body of salt water with land around it on most sides.
What is a sea?
A landform that roses high above the surrounding land.
What is a mountain?
This was exposed during the ice age when ocean levels lowered.
What is a land bridge?
The process of changing a plant or animal so that it is more beneficial to humans.
What is domestication?
The nutrients left behind when a river floods.
What is silt?
A piece of land surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
A dry area of land that receives little precipitation.
What is a desert?
A period of time when the world’s temperature lowered causing a drought.
What is the ice age?
A plant or animal that lives naturally in a specific area.
What is native?
The name for the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
An ancient civilization that was not founded near a river and instead depended upon the seas and trade to survive.
What is Ancient Greece?
A large body of water surrounded on all sides by land.
What is a lake?
A person who follows their food and has no permanent home.
What is a nomad?
An abundance of food created through farming.
What is a surplus?
Egypt is said to be the gift of this river.
What is The Nile?
To be alone or cut off from others.
What is isolated?
Nutrient rich land usually found near rivers that allows plants to grow well.
What are fertile farmlands?
The area of land between north and South America which was the first to be settled by prehistoric humans during the Neolithic Revolution.
What is Mesoamerica?
An advanced state of human society in which large populations lived and thrive together.
What is a civilization?
The Harappan Civilization lay along this river.
What is the Indus River?
Considered the first Ancient Greeks, these people survived off of not so peaceful trading.
What are the Mycenaeans?
A dense, wet forest with many different types of plants and animals that live in it.
What is a rainforest?