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Chapter 2 The Stone Ages & Early Cultures
6th grade SS new book-modified test
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6th Grade
09/10/2012

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Chapter 2 The Stone Age and Early Cultures
6th New Book
Modified test
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Give 2 examples of how prehistoric people adapted to their environment
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They made simple TOOLS to process food and developed a LANGUAGE to make it easier to communicate
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How did land bridges help people migrate around the world during the ice age?
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Land bridges connected CONTINENTS, allowing people to leave the freezing WEATHER and move to warmer, drier continents.
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How did farming bring change to human societies?
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People learned how to plant their own seeds to grow CROPS. They no longer had to follow animal herds and were able to SETTLE in one spot for extended periods of time.
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A relative who lived in the past
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Ancestor
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Name means "southern ape"
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Australopithecus
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To divide among a group of people
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Distribute
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Famous megalith
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Stonehenge
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Why is the study of ancient bones important to us today?
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The study of ancient bones gives us information about our human ancestors.
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Which defines Homo erectus?
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Upright man
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Which defines a land bridge?
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A strip of land connecting two continents.
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Which defines the Neolithic revolution?
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The shift from food gathering to food producing
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Which defines megalith?
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Huge stones used as monuments
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The work of archaeologists and anthropologists who study ancient bones is important because it
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Tells us early humans and hominids first appeared in East Africa millions of years ago
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What effect did the invention of tools have on early humans?
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They increased chances for survival
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Which was NOT part of the domestication of animals in the New Stone Age?
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Animals were used as materials for shelter.
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Which best summarizes why people learned how to make clothes and build shelters after migrating out of Africa?
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They needed more protection to survive in colder areas
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Early people probably believed in gods and goddesses associated with the elements because
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Early people based their religion on nature and their environment.
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FIRE
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This is what early people used for heat and protection from wild animals.
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MESOLITHIC Era
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This is when people settled in new lands
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BRANCHES
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This is what first human-made shelter's roofs were made of
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Thunder
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One of the gods early people believed in
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CHOPPERS
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Simple tool used for about 2 million years
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STONE age people
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used land bridges to move around the world
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ANTARCTICA
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The only continent people did not live on by 9000 B. C.
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Using large animals greatly improved the ability of people to
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FARM
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