Exam 3

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  robust australopithecine

B  Ethiopia

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  fully adult female

A  the shape of the pelvis

B  the position of the foramen magnum

C  shape of the femur

D  the elbow

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  mud and siltstone deposits

D  limestone caves

A  Kenya

B  australopithecines

C  fossilized footprints

D  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

C  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

D  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

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

B  the fossils were discovered in England

C  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

A  a sagittal crest

B  small front teeth and large back teeth

C  all of these

D  a small brain 

A  Egypt

B  Chad

C  Kenya

D  Ethiopia

A  shape of the pelvis

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  length of the femur

D  arch in the foot

A  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

B  Paranthropus

C  Orrorin tugenensis

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  able to climb more efficiently

B  able to run faster

C  able to sleep more easily

D  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

A  habitual bipedal locomotion

B  speech

C  hunting

D  tool use

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Dryopithecus

D  Proconsul

A  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

B  Proconsul and Carpolestes

C  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

D  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

A  Oligopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Parapithecus

A  prosimians

B  humans

C  monkeys

D  apes

A  gorilla

B  gibbon

C  orangutan

D  chimpanzee

A  Peru

B  France

C  China

D  India

A  pelvis

B  ankle

C  skull

D  lower premolar tooth

A  primate

B  ape

C  New World monkey

D  anthropoid

A  noses and eyes

B  hind limbs and feet

C  hands and feet

D  eyes and ears

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true mammals

C  the first true primates

D  the first true catarrhini

A  driopithecids

B  plesiadapiforms

C  proconsulids

D  adapids

A  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

B  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

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

D  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

A  live in the world’s oceans

B  useful for tracking temperature change

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

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

A  chemical

B  genetic

C  chronometric

D  nonrelative

A  wood

B  stone

C  teeth

D  shells

A  bone, wood, and stone

B  bone, shell and fabric

C  sediment, stone and ceramics

D  shell, ceramics, and wood

A  potassium-argon dating

B  carbon 14 dating

C  electron spin resonance dating

D  amino acid dating

A  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

B  The type specimen of a species

C  a fossil found in a particular site

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

A  carbon 13 and carbon 12

B  indes fossils

C  isotopes in general

D  carbon 14

A  dendrochronology

B  superposition

C  thermoluminescence

D  electron spin resonance

A  Steno’s law of superposition

B  Dendrochronology

C  carbon 14

D  biostratigraphy

A  sand

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  mud

D  Rock

A  archaeology

B  taphonomy

C  cryptozoology

D  forensic biology

A  Richard Owen

B  Alfred Wallace

C  William Smith

D  Charles Lyell