I believe the answer is: Activating Prior Knowledge
Prior knowledge refers to the type of knowledge that we obtained from our previous experience in the past. By obtaining prior knowledge, people could dramatically alter their perception when seeing the same event in the future, which explain Beth's easier understanding when she observed the storm.
Answer: D
Explanation: hunter gatherers used ⚒ tools to build wagons 4 travel
a light fuel oil obtained by distilling petroleum, used especially in jet engines and domestic heaters and lamps and as a cleaning solvent
to protect American land from future European colonization