 What do you remember about the following topics?  Hunting and gathering  Adapting  Extinction  The end of the last Ice Age

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

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

 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: People now had additional food sources.  Effect: Where food was plentiful, populations grew.

 Cause: Many Ice Age mammals became extinct.  Effect: Many people lost an important source of meat.

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

 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: In southwestern Asia, gatherers tried planting the seeds of wild grasses.  Effect: They became the world’s first farmers.

 Rye  Barley  Einkorn (type of wheat)

Barley

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