Let's solve each question based on the information provided in the text about
The Stone Age.
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1. What did people eat during the Stone Age?
Answer:
People ate wild nuts, fruits, berries, and hunted wild animals. They also fished using bone fishhooks.
Explanation:
From the text: *"People survived by gathering wild nuts, fruits, and berries. They also hunted wild animals... People used bones for fishhooks so that they could catch fish as well as animals."*
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2. How many parts is the Stone Age split into?
Answer:
Three parts.
Explanation:
The text says: *"The Stone Age is split into three different parts: the Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age), the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) and the Neolithic (New Stone Age)."*
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3. What was the period called when sheets of ice covered the Earth?
Answer:
c) Ice Age
Explanation:
This is a general historical fact supported by the text: *"The Middle Stone Age began at the end of the last Ice Age..."* This implies that the time when ice covered the Earth was known as the
Ice Age.
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4. What do you think it means when you domesticate an animal?
Answer:
To domesticate an animal means to tame and keep it for human use, such as for food, labor, or companionship.
Explanation:
Although not explicitly defined in the text, the context helps: *"They started to grow their own crops and domesticate animals."* This suggests that domesticating animals means raising them under human care rather than hunting them in the wild.
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5. A historian is someone who:
Answer:
a) Studies and writes about the past
Explanation:
A historian is a person who researches, studies, and writes about history — the past. The other options are incorrect:
- b) Sings about the past → That’s more like a songwriter or poet.
- c) Makes history → People "make" history through actions, but historians don't create history; they study it.
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✔ Final Answers:
1. Wild nuts, fruits, berries, wild animals, and fish.
2. Three parts.
3. c) Ice Age
4. To tame and raise animals for human use (e.g., food, labor).
5. a) Studies and writes about the past
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