Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

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

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

C  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

D  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

A  Ethiopia

B  robust australopithecine

C  fully adult female

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  the elbow

B  the shape of the pelvis

C  the position of the foramen magnum

D  shape of the femur

A  sedimentary sandstone

B  mud and siltstone deposits

C  limestone caves

D  lava flows/basalt layers

A  Kenya

B  australopithecines

C  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

D  fossilized footprints

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

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

B  the fossils were discovered in England

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

D  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

A  small front teeth and large back teeth

B  all of these

C  a sagittal crest

D  a small brain 

A  Egypt

B  Chad

C  Ethiopia

D  Kenya

A  length of the femur

B  arch in the foot

C  shape of the pelvis

D  position of the foramen magnum

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Paranthropus

C  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  able to run faster

B  able to sleep more easily

C  able to climb more efficiently

D  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

A  hunting

B  tool use

C  habitual bipedal locomotion

D  speech

A  Dryopithecus

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Proconsul

A  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

B  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

C  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

D  Proconsul and Carpolestes

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Parapithecus

C  Apidium

D  Oligopithecus

A  humans

B  monkeys

C  prosimians

D  apes

A  chimpanzee

B  gorilla

C  gibbon

D  orangutan

A  Peru

B  India

C  France

D  China

A  ankle

B  pelvis

C  lower premolar tooth

D  skull

A  primate

B  ape

C  New World monkey

D  anthropoid

A  hands and feet

B  noses and eyes

C  eyes and ears

D  hind limbs and feet

A  the first true primates

B  the first true catarrhini

C  the first true mammals

D  the first anthropoids

A  adapids

B  plesiadapiforms

C  proconsulids

D  driopithecids

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

B  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

C  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

D  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

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

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

C  live in the world’s oceans

D  useful for tracking temperature change

A  chemical

B  chronometric

C  genetic

D  nonrelative

A  teeth

B  shells

C  wood

D  stone

A  sediment, stone and ceramics

B  bone, wood, and stone

C  bone, shell and fabric

D  shell, ceramics, and wood

A  carbon 14 dating

B  electron spin resonance dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  amino acid dating

A  The type specimen of a species

B  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

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

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  carbon 13 and carbon 12

B  isotopes in general

C  carbon 14

D  indes fossils

A  superposition

B  electron spin resonance

C  thermoluminescence

D  dendrochronology

A  carbon 14

B  biostratigraphy

C  Dendrochronology

D  Steno’s law of superposition

A  mud

B  sand

C  Rock

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  taphonomy

B  forensic biology

C  cryptozoology

D  archaeology

A  Charles Lyell

B  Richard Owen

C  Alfred Wallace

D  William Smith