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Unit Test 1 – Study Guide Questions
Directions: With a partner, use your History Alive text book and interactive notebook to answer
the following review questions. The study guide will cover Chapter 1, Chapter 2, as well as the
lessons we did in our interactive notebook. Use complete sentences.
1. What activities would an archaeologist most likely do?
2. An object made or used by people in the past is called?
3. Why do historians read diaries and letters from the past?
4. A prehistoric object is one that comes from a time?
5. What is the evidence that prehistoric cave artists built wood structures (scaffolding) to
stand on?
6. Which clue to the past has been found near the artwork displayed in parts of caves?
7. Why are ancient handprints found on cave walls very small?
8. What does this ancient spear thrower, with its detailed carving, indicate about the
person who may have used it?
9. What could Lucy do that gorillas could not do as easily?
10.Which new capability enabled hominids to survive in colder climates?
11.The name Homo habilis means?
12.The bones of a number of hominids were found in one location. Scientists concluded
that this type of hominid probably?
13.What trait made Homo erectus well suited for traveling?
14.Homo erectus was the first hominid to use?
15.At Neanderthal sites, evidence from burial mounds, showing signs that people cared for
the sick and injured, has led scientists to believe that Neanderthals had?
16.What hominid group made cave paintings, carvings, and musical instruments?
17.What is the difference between facts and opinions?
18.What are the two types of checks we can do to see if a document is consistent?
19.What does it mean to Migrate?
20.What is a capability?
21.How do Historians investigate the past?