Stone Age - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

Finish the sentence Hunter-gatherers...

hunted animals and gathered wood

hunted animals and gathered plants

hunted animals and gathered bones

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

People began to control and train things so they could use them for survival - did this to plant and animals.

Domestication

Surplus

Fire

Ride

3.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

Another name for farming is ...

Planting

Settling

Agriculture

Nomad

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Early man migrated from what area to populate the world?

Africa

Europe

Asia

Ameria

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What made the Neolithic Age different from the Paleolithic Age?

Settled communities

Increased Agriculture

Pottery & Weaving skills

All of the above

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What development enabled man to live as farmers?

Warm clothing

Domestication of plants & animals

Pottery

Wheel

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The time period before history was recorded is known as -

Renaissance

Middle Ages

Dark Ages

Pre-history

8.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

Paleolithic

Old Stone Age

New Stone Age

Middle Stone Age

Flintstone Age

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Neolithic

Old Stone Age

New Stone Age

Middle Stone Age

Flintstone Age

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which best describes the nomadic lifestyle of the Paleolithic people?

They lived in large villages, where they raised crops and livestock.

They migrated from place to place

They stayed in one place, living in caves and under rock shelters

They lived in small villages and farmed the land

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Scientists believe that the earliest humans evolved in and migrated from which continent?

Europe

North America

Asia

Africa

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

A long period of time before people developed systems of writing and written language.

technology

prehistory

nomad

harvest

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Person who travels from place to place.

harvest

migrate

glacier

nomad

14.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

How did the Caveman explain their stories?

Wrote a book

Wrote in the dirt

Wrote on cave walls

Used sign language

15.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

What material were the first tools made from?

Stones and bones

Stones and metal

Bones and glass

Metal and wood

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What does agriculture mean???

Fishing

Farming

Hunting

Making tools

17.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

True or False: The Ice Age really happened

True

False

18.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

True or False: The caveman hunted in groups because it was safer

true

false

19.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

What did the OLD stone age people live in?

Caves

Houses

Tee-pees

Villages

20.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Farming was a good thing because....

It helped them stay alive longer

It let them stay in one place

It gave them plenty of food

All of the above

21.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

What materials did Stone Age humans use to make their tools?

Stone

Wood

Bone / Antler

All of the above

22.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What does the term nomadic mean?

To stay in one place

To move often and not settle in one place

To hunt and gather

To make simple stone tools

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