Becoming Human Scavenger Hunt
Skills You Will Practice: skimming and scanning for information; review question recognition; develop new vocabulary.
Purpose: preparation for academic lecture about the relationship of eating meat to human evolution.
Instructions: Go to the website http://www.becominghuman.org. Click on “launch the documentary.” Skim and scan for the answers to
the following questions. For some questions you will have to read, for other questions you will have to listen. Fill in the chart with your
answers.
1. How does the scientific method normally start?
2. What are the questions that science asks?
3. What are the questions that religion asks?
4. What is the definition of hypothesis?
5. What is the difference between the footprint of an ape and
the footprint of a human? Why is there this difference?
6. When did human brains get larger?
7. Why did human brains get larger? List one hypothesis.
8. What is a species?
9. Where were bones from the Neanderthals first found?
10. What was the diet of the Neanderthals?
11. What was the diet of Australopithecus boisei?
12. How old are the homo sapiens?
13. Where is Arnhem land? What was found there?