Grade 6 Social Studies Practice Test: Early Humans and the Neolithic Revolution
- Early Humans and the Neolithic Revolution
- 10 questions
- 13 minutes
These questions cover how people lived in the Old Stone Age, how farming changed everything and what makes a group of people a civilization. Tip: BCE years count down, so 3000 BCE is earlier than 500 BCE.
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Question 1
How did most people in the Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age) get their food?
Correct answer: D
Paleolithic people were hunter-gatherers. Farming did not begin until the Neolithic Age.
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Question 2
Why did most Paleolithic groups move from place to place?
Correct answer: B
Hunter-gatherers moved with the animals and plants they depended on. There were no cities, taxes or farms yet.
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Question 3
The Neolithic Revolution was the change from
Correct answer: C
Starting around 10,000 BCE, people in some regions began to plant crops and stay in one place. Iron tools came thousands of years later.
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Question 4
What does it mean to domesticate a plant or animal?
Correct answer: A
Domestication means taming animals such as goats and sheep or growing plants such as wheat on purpose. It was the key step in the Neolithic Revolution.
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Question 5
Farming often produced a surplus, or extra food. What was a direct result?
Correct answer: D
When not everyone had to find food, some people could specialize as potters, weavers or toolmakers. Surplus food also allowed populations to grow.
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Question 6
Which is a characteristic of a civilization?
Correct answer: C
Historians look for features such as cities, organized government, specialized jobs, religion and writing. The other choices describe hunter-gatherer life.
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Question 7
Which of these is a primary source about ancient Egypt?
Correct answer: B
A primary source was created by someone who lived at the time being studied. Textbooks, encyclopedias and documentaries are secondary sources.
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Question 8
Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is important to historians because it was
Correct answer: A
Çatalhöyük grew around 7000 BCE and housed thousands of people who farmed and kept animals. It shows how life changed after the Neolithic Revolution.
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Question 9
How many years passed between 3000 BCE and 500 BCE?
Correct answer: D
In BCE dates, numbers get smaller as time moves forward, so subtract: 3000 - 500 = 2,500. Adding the numbers to get 3,500 is the common mistake.
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Question 10
Before iron, people made tools from a soft metal that they later mixed with tin to make bronze. Which metal was it?
Correct answer: A
Copper was one of the first metals people worked, and copper mixed with tin makes bronze. Iron came later, and steel and aluminum much later.
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