Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

A  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

C  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

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

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  fully adult female

C  robust australopithecine

D  Ethiopia

A  the position of the foramen magnum

B  the elbow

C  the shape of the pelvis

D  shape of the femur

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  mud and siltstone deposits

C  sedimentary sandstone

D  limestone caves

A  fossilized footprints

B  Kenya

C  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

D  australopithecines

A  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

B  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

C  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

D  Sudan, Kenya, 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 sagittal crest

B  all of these

C  a small brain 

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Chad

B  Kenya

C  Ethiopia

D  Egypt

A  arch in the foot

B  length of the femur

C  shape of the pelvis

D  position of the foramen magnum

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  Paranthropus

C  Orrorin tugenensis

D  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

A  able to sleep more easily

B  able to run faster

C  able to climb more efficiently

D  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

A  tool use

B  speech

C  habitual bipedal locomotion

D  hunting

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Dryopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Proconsul

A  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

B  Proconsul and Carpolestes

C  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Oligopithecus

D  Parapithecus

A  monkeys

B  humans

C  prosimians

D  apes

A  gibbon

B  orangutan

C  chimpanzee

D  gorilla

A  India

B  China

C  France

D  Peru

A  pelvis

B  skull

C  ankle

D  lower premolar tooth

A  anthropoid

B  New World monkey

C  primate

D  ape

A  noses and eyes

B  eyes and ears

C  hands and feet

D  hind limbs and feet

A  the first true mammals

B  the first anthropoids

C  the first true primates

D  the first true catarrhini

A  proconsulids

B  plesiadapiforms

C  driopithecids

D  adapids

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  live in the world’s oceans

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

C  useful for tracking temperature change

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

A  nonrelative

B  genetic

C  chronometric

D  chemical

A  teeth

B  shells

C  stone

D  wood

A  bone, wood, and stone

B  sediment, stone and ceramics

C  shell, ceramics, and wood

D  bone, shell and fabric

A  amino acid dating

B  carbon 14 dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  electron spin resonance dating

A  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

B  a fossil found in a particular site

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

D  The type specimen of a species

A  carbon 14

B  indes fossils

C  carbon 13 and carbon 12

D  isotopes in general

A  dendrochronology

B  electron spin resonance

C  superposition

D  thermoluminescence

A  biostratigraphy

B  Steno’s law of superposition

C  Dendrochronology

D  carbon 14

A  mud

B  Rock

C  sand

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  cryptozoology

B  taphonomy

C  archaeology

D  forensic biology

A  Alfred Wallace

B  Richard Owen

C  William Smith

D  Charles Lyell