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Paleolithic Age
Review information about Paleolithic Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| To move from one place to another in order to survive | Migration |
| A prehistoric group that gathered food and lived together | Band |
| An area where hunters and food gatherers live and hunt | Home Territory |
| The time before people began to keep written records | Prehistory |
| Another name for the Paleolithic Age | Old Stone Age |
| The first fires were started by this | Lightning |
| Invention that made life easier | Tools and weapons (fire) |
| This made it possible for people to work together, share ideas, and pass on their beliefs and stories | Development of language |
| These early humans used pitfalls to trap large animals | Neanderthals |
| Considered the first modern humans | Cro-Magnons |
| The time period which is considered the Paleolithic Age | 2.3 million to 10,000 years ago |
| Man who thinks | Homo Sapiens |
| Clothing during the Paleolithic Age was made from this | Animal Skins |
| Made houses by covering a frame of mammoth bones with animal skins | Neanderthals |
| First people to bury their dead | Neanderthals |
| Had drainage ditches in their cave homes | Neanderthals |
| Bands cooperated to hunt large animals | Cro-Magnons |
| Traded materials like amber and shells | Cro-Magnons |
| Made statue out of bone, ivory and clay | Cro-Magnons |
| Invented axe to cut down trees and hollow logs for canoes | Cro-Magnons |
| Two types of migration | Push and Pull migration |
| Migration that stems from a negative factor (ex. food shortage) | Push Migration |
| Migration that stems from a positive factor (ex. hear of better food supply) | Pull migration |
| Continent that early humans lived on first | East Africa |
| What are the four basic needs of people? | Food, water, shelter and safety |
| What is the name of the land bridge that early humans crossed to get to the Americas? | Beringia |
| What can lead to physical changes over time in animals? | genetic mutations |
| When living things adapt to their environment to survive and produce more offspring is called? | Natural selection |
| Early humans could do two things that other animals could NOT. What are they? | walk upright and use tools |
| A special skill that helps an animal to survive and do everything it needs to do is called.... | adaptation |
| Name an example of an adaptation | camouflage, hibernation, and hair/fur |
| A period of a long term drop in global temperature is called... | Ice Age |
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