Question 1.
Fossils found in the ______ were called Homo neanderthalensis.
(a) Barun Valley
(b) Hunza Valley
(c) Neander Valley
(d) Lidder Valley
Answer
Answer: (c) Neander Valley
Question 2.
What is the base of the classification of fossils of early humans?
(a) Bone Structure
(b) DNA
(c) Muscle Structure
(d) None of the above
Answer
Answer: (a) Bone Structure
Question 3.
An archaeological site, which was used for quarrying limestone was:
(a) Chesowanja, Kenya
(b) Schoningen, Germany
(c) Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic
(d) Neander Valley, Germany
Answer
Answer: (d) Neander Valley, Germany
Question 4.
The term pathological idiot has been used with reference to
(a) Australopithecus
(b) Homo Habilis
(c) Homo Erectus
(d) Neanderthal
Answer
Answer: (d) Neanderthal
Question 5.
Long forelimbs, Curved hand and foot bones, and mobile ankle joints helped ______ to live on trees.
(a) Hominidae
(b) Neanderthal
(c) Hominoids
(d) Australopithecus
Answer
Answer: (d) Australopithecus
Question 6.
Zagros mountains, which form one limit of the Fertile Crescent, is situated in:
(a) Egypt
(b) Lebanon
(c) Iran
(d) Syria
Answer
Answer: (c) Iran
Question 7.
The last Ice Age ended around:
(a) 15,000 years ago
(b) 14, 000 years ago
(c) 13,000 years ago
(d) 12,000 years ago
Answer
Answer: (c) 13,000 years ago
Question 8.
The main reason that led to a change from foraging to farming occupation was:
(a) Domestication
(b) End of Ice Age
(c) Making of iron tools
(d) Warmer and wetter conditions
Answer
Answer: (a) Domestication
Question 9.
The Hominids survived for about:
(a) 1 Million years
(b) 2 Million years
(c) 3 Million years
(d) 4 Million years
Answer
Answer: (a) 1 Million years
Question 10.
Dexterity of the hands refers to:
(a) Roughness of the hands
(b) Shape of the hands
(c) Hardness of the hands
(d) Flexibility of the hands
Answer
Answer: (d) Flexibility of the hands
Question 11.
Fossils of Hominid found in Asia were not older as compared to fossils found in ______
(a) Europe
(b) Africa
(c) Australia
(d) America
Answer
Answer: (b) Africa
Question 12.
Population pressure in some areas increased due to the
(a) end of the ice age
(b) change in climate
(c) increase in food availability
(d) domestication
Answer
Answer: (c) increase in food availability
Question 13.
In the Eastern Hadza community, the lands belonged to
(a) Women
(b) Headmen
(c) Clan
(d) No one
Answer
Answer: (d) No one
Question 14.
Genus is the branch of the:
(a) Hominids
(b) Hominoids
(c) Neanderthalensis
(d) Australopithecus
Answer
Answer: (a) Hominids
Question 15.
From which organism group the hominids were evolved?
(a) Neanderthal
(b) Hominoids
(c) Neanderthalensis
(d) Australopithecus
Answer
Answer: (b) Hominoids
Question 16.
The Hominids belong to a family which is known as _____
(a) Hominidae
(b) Neanderthal
(c) Clan
(d) Australopithecus
Answer
Answer: (a) Hominidae
