Video "Environmental Revolution" Dr McConeghy SCI 3010

This worksheet is for all students in Dr McConeghy's Environmental Science classes.

The sheet has to be fully completed Get information to answer the questions from the videonotes page and from watching the video -- 12/2007

1. What are the men doing in the first scene of the video?

2. What country do the Shom people live in? What does it look like?

3. What do these people eat?

4. When the Shom people settle down, how does it change the way they care for their children?

5. how long have human beings lived on Earth in the way that these people live?

6. The Natufian people in the cave did something to mark their ownership of the territory. What did they do?

7. At Ain Ghazal, 9000 years ago, what building technology did they use?

8. What did the Ain Ghazal people burn for fuel when they first lived in the village? After a long time went by, what kind of fuel did they start using?

9. Why did they switch?

10. When was the "Neolithic Revolution?"

11 Where did the Neolithic Revolution mainly take place?

12. What was the Neolithic Revolution?

13. Another "Revolution" took place mainly in Britain from about 1700 - 1800. What do we call that?

14. Why did the British need to use coal or coke for iron making?

15. Professor Lee comments on the average age of death of working people in 1800s cities. What does he say?