Unit 1: Early Humans
Across
- 3. Anthropologists study the _____ of past societies.
- 4. There are _____ continents on Earth.
- 5. There are _____ oceans on Earth.
- 6. The oldest human fossils are named _____.
- 10. Bones have _____ in them and after death, the amount of this begins to decline.
- 11. _____ is the time from the appearance of the first human being to the invention of writing.
- 12. _____ location is a general description of how a place is related to other places.
- 13. This continent is a large island below the equator.
- 17. Early humans lived in ____, groups of about 30 people together.
- 18. This is a horizontal line of latitude that divides the Earth in half. The closer you live to it, the warmer it is.
- 19. This era is the "Middle Stone Age".
- 20. An ice land bridge that connected the Asia to North America allowing people to cross to new territory.
- 21. An ____ map is a smaller map featured on the same page as the main map.
- 23. If you go to a beach in North Carolina, you are swimming in the _____ Ocean.
- 24. The "C" in BCE stands for ____.
Down
- 1. People in the stone ages were _____ which means they tracked animals and berries for food.
- 2. This era is the "New Stone Age".
- 3. The span of 100 years is called a _____.
- 7. This era is the "Old Stone Age".
- 8. This is the southern most continent where humans cannot live long term due to the cold.
- 9. When archaeologists find human remains, they are called _____.
- 10. The _____ is a tool on a map that shows directions.
- 13. _____ location is an exact, fixed point on Earth's surface.
- 14. This continent is where the oldest human fossils have been found.
- 15. A _____ is an early human who walked upright on two feet.
- 16. Archaeologists examine man-made objects, called _____, to learn about the past.
- 19. To move from one place to another
- 22. People who move from place to place following food.