Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

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

B  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

D  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

A  fully adult female

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  Ethiopia

D  robust australopithecine

A  shape of the femur

B  the position of the foramen magnum

C  the elbow

D  the shape of the pelvis

A  mud and siltstone deposits

B  limestone caves

C  sedimentary sandstone

D  lava flows/basalt layers

A  australopithecines

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  Kenya

D  fossilized footprints

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

C  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

D  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

A  the fossils were discovered in England

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

C  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

A  a small brain 

B  all of these

C  small front teeth and large back teeth

D  a sagittal crest

A  Ethiopia

B  Egypt

C  Chad

D  Kenya

A  shape of the pelvis

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  arch in the foot

D  length of the femur

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

D  Paranthropus

A  able to climb more efficiently

B  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

C  able to run faster

D  able to sleep more easily

A  habitual bipedal locomotion

B  hunting

C  speech

D  tool use

A  Dryopithecus

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Proconsul

D  Apidium

A  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

B  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

C  Proconsul and Carpolestes

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Oligopithecus

C  Parapithecus

D  Apidium

A  prosimians

B  monkeys

C  apes

D  humans

A  chimpanzee

B  gorilla

C  orangutan

D  gibbon

A  India

B  Peru

C  China

D  France

A  skull

B  pelvis

C  ankle

D  lower premolar tooth

A  New World monkey

B  anthropoid

C  primate

D  ape

A  eyes and ears

B  noses and eyes

C  hind limbs and feet

D  hands and feet

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true mammals

C  the first true catarrhini

D  the first true primates

A  adapids

B  plesiadapiforms

C  driopithecids

D  proconsulids

A  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

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

C  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

D  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

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

B  useful for tracking temperature change

C  live in the world’s oceans

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

A  chemical

B  genetic

C  nonrelative

D  chronometric

A  wood

B  teeth

C  stone

D  shells

A  shell, ceramics, and wood

B  sediment, stone and ceramics

C  bone, wood, and stone

D  bone, shell and fabric

A  amino acid dating

B  electron spin resonance dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  carbon 14 dating

A  a fossil found in a particular site

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

C  The type specimen of a species

D  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

A  isotopes in general

B  carbon 13 and carbon 12

C  indes fossils

D  carbon 14

A  dendrochronology

B  electron spin resonance

C  thermoluminescence

D  superposition

A  Dendrochronology

B  biostratigraphy

C  carbon 14

D  Steno’s law of superposition

A  sand

B  mud

C  Rock

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  taphonomy

B  archaeology

C  cryptozoology

D  forensic biology

A  Alfred Wallace

B  Charles Lyell

C  William Smith

D  Richard Owen