Unit 1: Early Humans

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