Miriams Academy of Valenzuela Inc.

Second Monthly Examination

Social Study 9
Name: ________________________________________________________ Date: ______________________
Grade and Section:_________________________________________________ Score:___________________
I. Choose the correct answer.
1. This is the age where long period of time lasting for a thousand years characterized by snow covering a large
part of our continent.
a. ice age
b. stone age
c. metal age
2. Other word for Stone Age is ____________.
a. Paleolithic age
b. core age

c. metal age

3. The Mesolithic Age refers to___________.

a. Middle Stone Age
b. Stone age

c. Last Stone Age

4. In Neolithic Age, ______________ dominate it.

a. homo sapiens
b. homo erectus

c. homo hag ibis

5. Other word for taming and raising of animals to provide a livestock of meat supply is _________.
a. pastoralism
b. pestoralism
c. pasteralism
6. this is known as the Middle Age began at about 8,000 B.C.
a. Mesolithic
b. Mesopotamia

c. Neolithic

7. This is known as mans way life.

a. culture
b. broadcast

c. phonetic

8. It is known as the practice of agriculture and use of stone tools and weapon by New Stone Age.
a. neocortex
b. core tools
c. Neolithic
9. It is a stone tool produced by the hammering out the sides of stone using a baton to create a tool like the
scraper.
a. neocortex
b. core tools
c. Neolithic
10. It is a weapon made of small stones set in bones or attached to arrows make an arrow head.
a. mircolith
b. core tools
c. phonetic
II. Match column A with column B. Write the letter on the space before the number.
Column A

Column B

_____ 1. It is known as the weight of the air.

A. estuary

_____ 2. It is a horseshoe-shaped body of water along

the coast surrounded by land composed of
soft rocks.

B. cove

_____ 3. It is known as the amount of water vapor

present in the air.

C. butte

_____4. It is the climate found along the equator with

warm temperature all throughout the year.

D. Climate

_____ 5. It is known as permanent frozen land brought

about by continuous falling of snow over a long
long period of time.
_____ 6. It is the biggest body of water that surrounds a
Continent.

E. state

F. ocean

_____7. It is known as a self-governing and internationally

-recognized independent political body

G. air pressure

_____ 8. It is known as a hill formation with a steep side

Or a flat-top.

H. tropical climate

_____ 9. It is the condition of the weather over a long

period of time.

I. permafrost

_____ 10. It is a place near the mouth of the river where

Freshwater and saltwater meet.

J. humidity

_____ 11. It is a region in west Asia that stretches like an arc

from Palestine thru the Iranian plateau.

K. microlith

_____ 12. It is a system of characters, which reproduce

A sound that is used to translate a spoken word into a
Written form.

L. phonetic

_____ 13. It is known as the land between two rivers.

M. Mesopotamia

_____ 14. It is the area of brain where higher-order

Thinking is actively observe.

N. neocortex

____ 15. It is known as the act of scattering

grains thru throwing

O. broadcast

III. Identify the following. Write our answer on the space provided for.
_______________ 1. It is a large group of people sharing common cultural characteristics, history and ethnic
background.
_______________ 2. It is a mountainous vent on our planets crust.
_______________ 3. It is known as the largest body of freshwater on land.
_______________ 4. It is a larger region of flat land that has small changes on its distance from the ground.
_______________ 5. It is known as the amount of heat in the air.
_______________ 6. It is a long period of weather that occurs only in the Northern Hemisphere and is prevalent
in the Sub-arctic areas.
_______________ 7. It is an area located in the mountains where the air is thin because of high altitude.
_______________ 8. It is the largest inhabited continent in our planet.
_______________ 9. It is the smallest inhabited continent in our planet.
_______________ 10. This is a geographic term indicating the physical territory of a nation.
IV. Arrange the scrabble letter to form a word.
1. He is the king of Sparta. (MNLEEAUS) _________________________________
2. She is the beautiful wife of the king of Sparta. (HLNEE) __________________________________
3. This is the small country abundant in coastlines. (GREEEC) ________________________________
4. They are the great sailors. (HELLEENS) __________________________________
5. Known as orators and good speakers in the Athenian Assembly. (DEMAGOGUE) ____________________

Miriams Academy of Valenzuela Inc.

Second Monthly Examination
Social Studies 8-Asian History
Name: ________________________________________________________ Date: ______________________
Grade and Section:_________________________________________________ Score:___________________
Direction: Choose and circle the letter of the
correct answer..
A.
B.
C.
D.

1. What are modern humans called?

Homo erectus
Homo sapiens sapiens
Cro-Magnon
Homo sapiens

A.
B.
C.
D.

2. What type(s) of evidence do historians have

to verify that events in prehistory actually
occurred?
Tools
All of these
Pictures
Fossils

A.
B.
C.
D.

3. What was the Neolithic Age?

New Copper Age
Old Copper Age
Old Stone Age
New Stone Age

4. The Paleolithic Period ended because the

melting of the last sheet of ice allowed for
fertile lands which allowed societies to
develop into/advance to hunting and
gathering societies that were nomadic. This
would allow civilization to begin!
A.
True
B.
False
5. What are three (3) characteristics of the
Paleolithic Age? Choose the BEST choice!
A.Hunting and gathering, Nomadic, uncivilized.
B. Hunters and gatherers.
C. Nomadic wanderers.
D. Farmers and herders.
6. The Stone Age is the prehistorical era in
which historians believe that humans began
the practise of farming and agriculture.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Within the Stone Age classification of the

three aged system, there are various subgroups that classify the evolution of
humans. Which of the following subgroups
is most closely associated with
agricultural development?
Epipalaeolithic
Paleolithic
Neolithic
Mesolithic

7. What does prehistory mean?

A. The time before time.
B The time period before writing/recording of
. events.
C. Previous history.
8. Eugene Dubois was a Dutch physician who
set out in the 1890s to find remains of early
humanoids. He located the first examples of
what he called 'Pithecanthropus erectus',
also known as Homo erectus, on what island
in 1891?
A.
B.
C.
D.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Borneo
Java
Celebes
New Guinea
9. What was it that allowed for the transition
from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic
Age?
Industrial Revolution
American Revolution
War
Agricultural Revolution

10. What two (2) beings roamed the earth at

the same time as homo sapiens?
A. Homo habilius and Homo erectus.
B.Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo erectus.
C. Cro-Magnons and Homo sapiens.
D. Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals.