Producing Food

What do you remember about the following topics?

Hunting and gathering Adapting Extinction The end of the last Ice Age

Do Now

At the end of the last Ice Age, there were many causes and effects that lead to the birth of farming.

Causes and Effects

Read the Adapting to Change section on page 49 of your textbook.

In your notebook, label the causes and effects that lead to farming.

Directions

Cause: Warmer temperatures allowed people, animals, and plants to spread north and south from the equator

Effect: People began to see animals and plants they had never seen before.

Cause and Effect 1

Cause: People now had additional food sources.

Effect: Where food was plentiful, populations grew.

Cause and Effect 2

Cause: Many Ice Age mammals became extinct.

Effect: Many people lost an important source of meat.

Cause and Effect 3

Cause: Climate of southwestern Asia and other places grew drier, causing droughts.

Effect: Droughts caused food shortages.

Cause and Effect 4

Cause: People had difficulty feeding themselves (growing populations, animal extinctions, droughts).

Effect: People adapted by storing food, or creating weapons to kill smaller animals.

Cause and Effect 5

Cause: In southwestern Asia, gatherers tried planting the seeds of wild grasses.

Effect: They became the world’s first farmers.

Cause and Effect 6

Abu Hureyra(Approximate location labeled with White “X”)

Rye Barley Einkorn (type of wheat)

Crops: Abu Hureyra

Rye Barley

Einkorn

What are the causes and effects you learned today? How do they relate to one another?

Wrap Up