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Social Studies
Unit 2 People of the Stone Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the Paleolithic time period? | (Old Stone Age) |
| What is the Mesolithic time period? | (Middle Stone Age) |
| What is the Neolithic time period? | (New Stone Age) |
| What are fossils? | are remains of living things (plant, animals, and people.) |
| what are Artifacts? | are remains of things that were made. |
| Anthropologist Study what? | Study humans. |
| Archeologist study what? | study sites, and Artifacts. |
| Paleontologist study what? | study fossils. |
| Describe the life of Lucy and explain why she was important. | Lucy was a scientist who study skeletons and bones. She was about 4 feet tall and weighing about 50 pounds. They believe she drowned in a lake or river. |
| Describe Catal Huyuk. | A small place near Jericho full of houses and fields. |
| What are hunters and gathers? | hunt and gathers. These people did not plant crops. |
| What are nomads? | depend on wild plants and animals to survive. They followed where the food supply went and gathered seeds and nuts. |
| What is migration? | is traveling from one place to another. |
| Describe the Mesolithic age? | They had people that were taller and smarter than Lucy's people and they didn't know how to start fire. |
| TRUE OR FALSE:Dinosaurs and people lived during the same time. | False |
| TRUE OR FALSE:Early people have always known how to be farmers. | False |
| TRUE OR FALSE:Early people did not have a writing system. | True |
| What continent did early humans originate from? | Africa |
| What Kinds of tools did the early people use? | Knife, bow and arrow, spear. |
| What did they use these tools for? | They use these tools for food, to skin the fur on the animals, and to cut food. |
| What were the tools made out of? | Stone and Sticks |
| Name an animals that the early people hunted. | A Deer |
| What is Prehistory? | Before History |
| What is the Neolithic period also as? | Agricultural Revolution. |