Exam 3

A  nonhoning chewing, loss of apelike traits, small brain size

B  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

C  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

D  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  fully adult female

C  Ethiopia

D  robust australopithecine

A  the elbow

B  shape of the femur

C  the position of the foramen magnum

D  the shape of the pelvis

A  sedimentary sandstone

B  mud and siltstone deposits

C  limestone caves

D  lava flows/basalt layers

A  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

B  fossilized footprints

C  Kenya

D  australopithecines

A  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

B  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

A  discovery of the Taung child begins to discredit the Piltdown fossils

B  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

C  the fossils were discovered in England

D  radiocarbon dating demonstrated the fossils could not have come from the same individual

A  a small brain 

B  all of these

C  small front teeth and large back teeth

D  a sagittal crest

A  Egypt

B  Ethiopia

C  Chad

D  Kenya

A  length of the femur

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  arch in the foot

D  shape of the pelvis

A  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

B  Paranthropus

C  Orrorin tugenensis

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

B  able to climb more efficiently

C  able to sleep more easily

D  able to run faster

A  hunting

B  speech

C  tool use

D  habitual bipedal locomotion

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Dryopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Proconsul

A  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

B  Proconsul and Carpolestes

C  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

D  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

A  Apidium

B  Oligopithecus

C  Parapithecus

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  humans

B  monkeys

C  apes

D  prosimians

A  gibbon

B  orangutan

C  gorilla

D  chimpanzee

A  India

B  Peru

C  China

D  France

A  skull

B  ankle

C  pelvis

D  lower premolar tooth

A  New World monkey

B  anthropoid

C  ape

D  primate

A  eyes and ears

B  hands and feet

C  hind limbs and feet

D  noses and eyes

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true catarrhini

C  the first true primates

D  the first true mammals

A  driopithecids

B  adapids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  proconsulids

A  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

B  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

C  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

D  developed vision, greater sense of smell and grasping hands and feet

A  live in the world’s oceans

B  analysis indicates the climate associated with the appearance of the early hominins was drier and more seasonal than in previous times

C  provide for comparisons in two stable forms of oxygen: O12 and O 14

D  useful for tracking temperature change

A  genetic

B  nonrelative

C  chronometric

D  chemical

A  wood

B  stone

C  teeth

D  shells

A  bone, shell and fabric

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  sediment, stone and ceramics

D  bone, wood, and stone

A  potassium-argon dating

B  amino acid dating

C  carbon 14 dating

D  electron spin resonance dating

A  the ideal specimen of that species that all examples must follow

B  a fossil found in a particular site

C  The type specimen of a species

D  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

A  carbon 14

B  indes fossils

C  carbon 13 and carbon 12

D  isotopes in general

A  thermoluminescence

B  superposition

C  dendrochronology

D  electron spin resonance

A  Dendrochronology

B  Steno’s law of superposition

C  carbon 14

D  biostratigraphy

A  Rock

B  sand

C  mud

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  cryptozoology

B  archaeology

C  forensic biology

D  taphonomy

A  Charles Lyell

B  Richard Owen

C  William Smith

D  Alfred Wallace