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2020 Paleolithic Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What can cause an animal to physically change over a period of time? | Genetic mutation |
| The first human species were found in... | East Africa |
| What is the process called where living things better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring? | Natural Selection |
| What separated early humans from other animals? | They could walk upright and use tools. |
| What it is called when an animal develops a special skill that helps them survive? | Adaptation |
| One of the first tools that early humans used | handaxes |
| What important development allowed early humans to share ideas and become smarter? | Speech |
| What important discovery allowed early humans to keep warm, scare off animals, and hunt better? | Fire |
| Can the use of fire to cook food actually help early humans to develop bigger brains? | YES |
| What development allowed early humans to see danger coming, use their hands, and see prey better when hunting? | Walking upright |
| The movement from one place to another is called.. | Migration |
| When something causes you to want to leave a place it is a type of ... | Push migration |
| When something draws or attracts you to a place it is a type of .... | Pull migration |
| A person who has no permanent home is called a.... | Nomad |
| Changing season, drought, and migrating herds of animals were all reasons for early humans to ... | Migrate |
| Which gender was responsible for hunting, fishing, and trapping food? | Men |
| Which gender was responsible for helping to produce and gather food? | Women and children |
| A natural home or environment of a living thing is called a ... | Habitat |
| Early human habitats have an impact on their... | religion, food, clothing, shelter |
| Which group of homo sapiens were great toolmakers, great shelter builders, and made better clothing that helped them survive the Ice Age? | Cro-Magnons |
| This group of early humans used pitfalls to trap large animals | Neanderthals |
| This group of early humans had larger noses and a protruding brow line | Neanderthals |
| This group of early humans were believed to be the first to bury their dead | Neanderthals |
| This group of early humans were very strong; had brute strength | Neanderthals |
| This group of early humans was considered the first MODERN humans | Cro-Magnons |
| This group of early humans was the first to create cave paintings | Cro-Magnons |
| This group of early humans were taller and slimmer than their predecessors | Cro-Magnons |
| This group of early humans invented axes to cut down trees | Cro-Magnons |