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Early Humans Test 2025
By Janifer A Douglas
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Question 1
1.
According to one theory, from which continent did the earliest human-like ancestors migrate (start from)?
Africa
Asia
Europe
Austalia
Question 2
2.
How did early humans probably migrate from
Asia to North America?
on icebergs
by boat
on horses
over a land bridge
Question 3
3.
How did early humans FIRST use fire?
for warmth, cooking, and protection from animals
for hunting, clearing land, and making tools
for ceremonies, cooking, and making tools
Question 4
4.
What is another name for early hominids who ate wild animals and fruits, roots, and nuts?
ancient farmers
hunter-gatherers
Paleolithic humans
Question 5
5.
How did early humans adapt to new, colder environments?
by making clothes and building shelters
by farming and eating more
by inventing stoves and charcoal
Question 6
6.
People learned to farm and domesticate plants and animals during the...
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era)
Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic Era)
New Stone Age (Neolithic Era)
Question 7
7.
What was most likely the subject of the cave painting in the photo above?
religion
hunting
family
Question 8
8.
The movement of nomadic early humans walking around the world to follow food is and example of...
a land bridge
migration
domestication
Question 9
9.
Changing plants AND animals
to make them more useful to humans is called...
domestication
hunting & gathering
migration
Question 10
10.
Chipping a rock into a stone ax would best be described as
tool making
hunting
gathering
Question 11
11.
Growing wheat and corn are examples of _______.
society
agriculture
tool making
Question 12
12.
Which of the following was NOT mentioned as an early from of shelter for early humans?
large bones covered with animal skin
pit houses
tree houses
caves
Question 13
13.
What makes humans different than other animals?
use and create fire
make tools
have language
walk on two legs
all of the above
none of the above
Question 14
14.
Name three ways human lives were improved by agriculture?
Hint: You must mark 3 choices.
helped them draw cave paintings
people could stay in one place
gave them more time to focus on other things
gave access different types of food - like eggs, milk, and different vegetables
people moved houses more often
Question 15
15.
Which important development was MOST influential in the separation these THREE time periods: the Old Stone Age, Middle Stone Age, and New Stone Age?
Hint: Why was it divided into three separate eras?
growing crops
development of tools
building boats
being able to write
Question 16
16.
In hunter-gatherer societies, the men were most likely responsible for __________.
hunting
gathering vegetables
picking fruit
watching the children
Question 17
17.
Flint knives, choppers, spears, and hand axes are all examples of ____________, made by early hominids to help them accomplish a task.
farming
tools
fossils
game pieces
Question 18
18.
Hominids and early humans often worked _____________.
together in small groups
by themselves
in large cities
Question 19
19.
Mary and Louis Leaky studied artifacts and fossils like the Australopithicus named Lucy. They were _____________.
archaeologists
biologists
chemists
Question 20
20.
What is a nomad?
a piece of land that allowed people to travel from one continent to another
someone who studies the past, based on what people left behind
a person who moves from place to place
another word for a farmer
Question 21
21.
The Ice Age was...
the time of early humans, including the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Eras
a time of freezing weather on Earth about 1.6 million years ago
to move away from your home and settle in a new place
an object changed to help a person accomplish a task
Question 22
22.
What three elements
BEST helped
early humans
survive?
fire, nature, cave paintings
nature, story telling, hunting
fire, tools, language
story telling, tools, pottery
Question 23
23.
Which is an example of a domesticated animal?
fox
sheep
lion
wolf
