Pre-History Vocabulary
  • 1. the appearance of new properties in the course of development
A) Prehistory
B) Migrate
C) Appearing
D) Emergence
  • 2. an area in the Middle and Near East: formerly fertile, now partly desert, shaped like a crescent
A) Neolithic
B) Middle East
C) Fertile Crescent
D) Stone Age
  • 3. the scientific name for the human species
A) Pre Human
B) Nomads
C) Humans
D) Homo Sapiens
  • 4. human
A) Hominid
B) Nomads
C) Paleolithic
D) Homo Sapiens
  • 5. the glacial period, which ended about 10,000 years ago when much of the Earth was covered with ice
A) Stone Age
B) Paleolithic
C) Ice Age
D) Prehistoric
  • 6. to go from one country, region, or place to another; to move, resettle or relocate
A) Emergence
B) Migrate
C) Movement
D) Nomads
  • 7. the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles; thought to have begun 9000-8000 BC
A) Prehistoric
B) Stone Age
C) Ice Age
D) Neolithic
  • 8. a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent home, moves about from place to place
A) Pre Humans
B) Migrate
C) Hominid
D) Nomads
  • 9. the early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and is marked by the development of stone tools, engravings on bone and stone sculptures, paintings and engravings on the walls of caves
A) Prehistoric
B) Neolithic
C) Ice Age
D) Paleolithic
  • 10. of or pertaining to the time, or a period prior to recorded history
A) Prehistoric
B) Stone Age
C) Dinosaurs
D) Ice Age
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