Unit 1 & 2 Terms

Question 1

Art/Symbolic

Answer 1

The earliest recorded forms of human story telling

Question 2

Biological evolution

Answer 2

the change of inherited traits throughout biological evolution

Question 3

Biological Niche

Answer 3

The role an organism plays in a community

Question 4

Bipedalism

Answer 4

the condition of having two feet

Question 5

Civilization

Answer 5

a human society containing different cities or at the time different groups

Question 6

Collective Learning

Answer 6

a process that results in the production of knowledge.

Question 7

Complexity

Answer 7

a factor involved in a complicated process or situation.

Question 8

Culture

Answer 8

beliefs of a population that are passed down from generation to generation

Question 9

Cultural evolution

Answer 9

cultural change over time

Question 10

Division of Labor

Answer 10

different jobs for people

Question 11

Domestication

Answer 11

taming animals (for food or other labors)

Question 12

Adaptation

Answer 12

a modification of an organism that helps fit its habitat/surroundings

Question 13

Energy/Human Brain

Answer 13

as our brains got bigger our bodies got bigger aswell

Question 14

Extensification

Answer 14

Bringing more land

Question 15

Farming

Answer 15

growing crops and raising livestock

Question 16

Fertile Crescent

Answer 16

land between Iran and Turkey

Question 17

Forager

Answer 17

people who support themselves by hunting

Question 18

Goldilocks conditions

Answer 18

describes a situation that has to be exactly right

Question 19

Homo erectus

Answer 19

extinct species that had smaller bodies and brains than we humans have

Question 20

Homo sapiens

Answer 20

scientific name for humans

Question 21

Human

Answer 21

Big brains, and adapt to an environment, and can walk on two legs

Question 22

Kelp Highway

Answer 22

a food resource along the coast (seaweed)

Question 23

Megafauna

Answer 23

large animals that are extinct

Question 24

Natural selection

Answer 24

individuals that have traits that tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals

Question 25

Neanderthals

Answer 25

The first extinct human relatives to have become known to science

Question 26

Social hierarchy

Answer 26

the division of society by rank or class

Question 27

Symbolic learning

Answer 27

the ability to use and understand symbols

Question 28

Systematic Agriculture

Answer 28

taming/farming animals and growing food on a daily basis

Question 29

Threshold 1

Answer 29

Big Bang

Question 30

Threshold 2

Answer 30

Stars

Question 31

Threshold 3

Answer 31

new chemical elements

Question 32

Threshold 4

Answer 32

earth and solar systems

Question 33

Threshold 5

Answer 33

humans and life on earth

Question 34

Threshold 6

Answer 34

collective learning