Hunter-gatherers: Adapting To The Environment

1. What does the word "adapt" mean?

Making changes to live in different conditions

Changing your diet

A time when ice covered much of the earth

2. What was the "Ice Age"?

A time when most of the earth was covered in water

A time when much of the earth was covered in ice

A time when the ice on the earth was melting

3. What kinds of animals did people have to start hunting after the Ice Age ended?

Saber-tooth cats

Fish, birds, and other animals

Dinosaurs

4. What happened to wooly mammoths after the Ice Age?

They evolved into elephants

They became extinct

They started killing people

5. Hunter-gatherers depended on nearby ____________________ to survive.

Shelters

Plants and animals

Weapons

6. How did hunter-gatherers adapt to the conditions of the Ice Age?

By using fire and clothing

By living in igloos

By living underground

7. Which sentence uses the word "extinct" correctly?

Many hunter-gatherers liked to hunt for the dangerous extinct.

Many people like to extinct because it allows them to see new places.

Animals like the saber-tooth cat became extinct after the Ice Age.

8. How did hunter-gatherers travel from Northeast Asia to North America

Taking boats

Walking across ice

Swimming

9. Where were hunter-gatherers living during the Ice Age?

Europe

North America

Africa

South America

Australia

Asia

Antarctica

10. About 10,000 years ago, people needed to adapt to ___________________.

Larger animals

Even colder climates

Warmer weather

Life in other areas