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Geography Terms
Paleolithic Times
Neolithic Times
Archaeologists/ Artifacts
Geography Terms cont.
100
a narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water
What is a strait?
100
Paleolithic people were hunter-gatherers
How did Paleolithic people get their food?
100
Agriculture
What is the main factor that changed Paleolithic society to Neolithic society?
100
Fossils, structures, and tools
What types of evidence can anthropologists/archaeologists use?
100
area of high, flat land with steep sides
What is a plateau?
200
a bowl shaped area of land
What is a basin?
200
Africa
What continent did early people probably first appear?
200
Agriculture is farming
What is agriculture?
200
to learn what life was like in the past
What is the reason archaeologists study objects and fossils from past?
200
deep narrow valley with steep sides
What is a canyon?
300
a large waterfall
What is a cataract
300
a stone tool
What could be an artifact of Paleolithic people?
300
Agriculture made it possible to stay in one place for a long time. People no longer had to hunt and gather.
How did agriculture effect prehistoric people?
300
Artifacts can show how people used to hunt and live.
What do artifacts show about a civilization?
300
narrow strip of land connecting two larger areas of land
What is an isthmus?
400
flat land that is near the edges of a river and is formed by the silt deposited by floods.
What is a flood plain?
400
Fertile soil, reliable water source, and natural resources
What determined where Neolithic people built their settlements?
400
a stone tool
What is an example of an artifact?
400
row of mountains
What is a mountain range?
500
a stream or river that empties into a larger river
What is a tributary?
500
To find better sources of food, water, and shelter.
Why do groups migrate?
500
Domestication is changing the behavior and traits of plants and animals.
What is domestication?
500
no
Is a fossil an artifact?
500
gap between land
What is a mountain pass?