Morning Starters: Summer 2 - Ice Age
Did You Know?
Humans managed to survive the Ice Age by using fire, building shelters and hunting large animals like mammoths. Early humans developed stone tools and made clothing from animal skins to stay warm. Archaeologists have found ancient human remains that show how they lived and adapted to the cold.
Credit: BBC Two - The Incredible Human Journey
Word Challenge
A scientist who studies early humans is called a paleoanthropologist.
Use a dictionary to find out what the following scientists study:
1) Entomologist
2) Ornithologist
3) Ecologist
Grammar Challenge
Write a descriptive sentence that follows on from the sentence below.
The hunter crouched low, muscles tense and breath steady, as the massive woolly mammoth lumbered through the snow-covered wilderness.
Number Challenge
A cave was 25 m long by15 m wide. Some early humans planned to divide the cave into five equal sections for different families to live in.
How many square metres of space will each family have?
Critical Thinking
Charles Darwin believed that fire was humanity’s greatest discovery.
Do you agree with him? Why or why not?