Producing Food

1. Producing Food

2. Do Now • What do you remember about the following topics? • Hunting and gathering • Adapting • Extinction • The end of the last Ice Age

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

4. Directions • Read the Adapting to Change section on page 49 of your textbook. • In your notebook, label the causes and effects that lead to farming.

5. Cause and Effect 1 • 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.

6. Cause and Effect 2 • Cause: People now had additional food sources. • Effect: Where food was plentiful, populations grew.

7. Cause and Effect 3 • Cause: Many Ice Age mammals became extinct. • Effect: Many people lost an important source of meat.

8. Cause and Effect 4 • Cause: Climate of southwestern Asia and other places grew drier, causing droughts. • Effect: Droughts caused food shortages.

9. Cause and Effect 5 • Cause: People had difficulty feeding themselves (growing populations, animal extinctions, droughts). • Effect: People adapted by storing food, or creating weapons to kill smaller animals.

10. Cause and Effect 6 • Cause: In southwestern Asia, gatherers tried planting the seeds of wild grasses. • Effect: They became the world’s first farmers.

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

12. Crops: Abu Hureyra • Rye • Barley • Einkorn (type of wheat)

13. Barley Rye

14. Einkorn

15. Wrap Up • What are the causes and effects you learned today? How do they relate to one another?