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Hunter and Gatherer Assessment
1. What did early people do to survive?
4. A tool or invention used to complete
a task is called _____.
a. hunting and farming
b. mining and gathering
c. fishing and farming
d. hunting and gathering
a. an artifact
b. technology
c. environment
d. an object
2. How do early humans compare to
people today?
a. They were shorter.
b. They ate the same foods.
5. What did archaeologists find that
tells us all about hunters and
gatherers?
c. They were the same height.
d. They were often weaker.
a. artifacts
b. hunter-gatherers
3. What were weapons made out of?
a. metal and wood
c. technology
d. environment
b. stone and wood
c. metal and stone
d. plastic and wool
6. How did early humans interact with the environment? List two examples. RTQ your
answer.
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7. What types of food did they eat?
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8. Define domesticate.
a. to train animals so they would be
easier to kill
9. Hunters and gatherers were nomads.
What does nomad mean?
a. to move from place to place
b. to travel in groups
b. to buy and sell goods
c. to train wild animals to be useful to
humans
c. to train wild animals to be useful to
humans
d. to farm or trade
d. to farm or trade
10. Why did hunters and gatherers move often?
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11. Define agriculture.
12. Define trade.
a. gathering
a. to train animals
b. farming
b. to travel
c. hunting
c. to farm
d. trading
d. buying or selling or exchanging
items
13. What did the hunters and gathers do for shelter?
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14. What is a hunter?
a. a person who eats and sleeps
after hunting
b. a person or animal that hunts for
birds and animals for food or sport.
15. What is a gatherer?
a. a collector of food and other
items
b. weapons of mass destruction
c. agriculture
c. a cave or tent that the hunter stays
d. domestication
in
d. weapons made by the hunter
16. While the men hunted, what did the women and children do? What were their jobs?
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How did the hunters use this animal once it was hunted and killed? Name three things. RTQ
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What does domesticate mean?
To train a wild animal to be useful to humans
What is agriculture?
The business of farming plants or animals
What is trade?`
The business of buying and spelling or exchanging items
What was the food supply of the Paleolithic Age people and the
Neolithic Age people?
Paleolithic- Plants such as nuts and berries, and animals like buffalo
Neolithic- Meats from sheep, cattle, and goats, grains like wheat and
barley, and milk from goats and cattle.
Name 3 things the Neolithic "tool kits" contained.
The tool kits included a bow and arrows, an ax, a pickax, and a knife.
What were the jobs of the Paleolithic people? And four of the
Neolithic jobs?
Paleolithic- hunters and gatherers
Neolithic- weavers, basket makers, toolmakers, and traders, as well as
farmers.
Where did Paleolithic people shelter? Neolithic? Describe a Neolithic
shelter.
Paleolithic- caves and rough, tent-like structures. ALL TEMPORARY
Neolithic- The Neolithic settlements were made out of mud bricks
placed in a round or rectangular shape. Tree branches and stone were
often added to the roof to strengthen them.