Exam 3

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

A  robust australopithecine

B  Ethiopia

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  fully adult female

A  the elbow

B  shape of the femur

C  the position of the foramen magnum

D  the shape of the pelvis

A  mud and siltstone deposits

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  limestone caves

D  lava flows/basalt layers

A  fossilized footprints

B  australopithecines

C  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

D  Kenya

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

C  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

D  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

A  the fossils were discovered in England

B  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

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

A  all of these

B  small front teeth and large back teeth

C  a small brain 

D  a sagittal crest

A  Egypt

B  Kenya

C  Chad

D  Ethiopia

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  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

C  Paranthropus

D  Orrorin tugenensis

A  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

B  able to run faster

C  able to sleep more easily

D  able to climb more efficiently

A  hunting

B  habitual bipedal locomotion

C  tool use

D  speech

A  Apidium

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Dryopithecus

D  Proconsul

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

D  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

A  Apidium

B  Oligopithecus

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Parapithecus

A  monkeys

B  humans

C  prosimians

D  apes

A  gibbon

B  gorilla

C  orangutan

D  chimpanzee

A  France

B  Peru

C  China

D  India

A  lower premolar tooth

B  ankle

C  skull

D  pelvis

A  ape

B  anthropoid

C  primate

D  New World monkey

A  hind limbs and feet

B  hands and feet

C  eyes and ears

D  noses and eyes

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true primates

C  the first true catarrhini

D  the first true mammals

A  proconsulids

B  adapids

C  driopithecids

D  plesiadapiforms

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

B  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

C  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

D  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

A  useful for tracking temperature change

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

C  live in the world’s oceans

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

A  nonrelative

B  genetic

C  chemical

D  chronometric

A  stone

B  shells

C  wood

D  teeth

A  bone, wood, and stone

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  bone, shell and fabric

D  sediment, stone and ceramics

A  electron spin resonance dating

B  carbon 14 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 14

B  isotopes in general

C  indes fossils

D  carbon 13 and carbon 12

A  dendrochronology

B  electron spin resonance

C  superposition

D  thermoluminescence

A  Dendrochronology

B  carbon 14

C  biostratigraphy

D  Steno’s law of superposition

A  Rock

B  mud

C  sand

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  archaeology

B  cryptozoology

C  forensic biology

D  taphonomy

A  William Smith

B  Charles Lyell

C  Alfred Wallace

D  Richard Owen