Exam 3

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

B  nonhoning 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  Ethiopia

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  robust australopithecine

D  fully adult female

A  the position of the foramen magnum

B  the shape of the pelvis

C  shape of the femur

D  the elbow

A  mud and siltstone deposits

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  limestone caves

D  lava flows/basalt layers

A  fossilized footprints

B  australopithecines

C  Kenya

D  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

C  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

D  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

A  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

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

D  the fossils were discovered in England

A  all of these

B  a sagittal crest

C  a small brain 

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Ethiopia

B  Chad

C  Egypt

D  Kenya

A  shape of the pelvis

B  length of the femur

C  arch in the foot

D  position of the foramen magnum

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

C  Orrorin tugenensis

D  Paranthropus

A  able to climb more efficiently

B  able to sleep more easily

C  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

D  able to run faster

A  habitual bipedal locomotion

B  tool use

C  speech

D  hunting

A  Apidium

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Proconsul

D  Dryopithecus

A  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

B  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

C  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

D  Proconsul and Carpolestes

A  Apidium

B  Parapithecus

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Oligopithecus

A  prosimians

B  humans

C  apes

D  monkeys

A  orangutan

B  gibbon

C  chimpanzee

D  gorilla

A  China

B  France

C  Peru

D  India

A  ankle

B  lower premolar tooth

C  pelvis

D  skull

A  ape

B  anthropoid

C  primate

D  New World monkey

A  hands and feet

B  noses and eyes

C  eyes and ears

D  hind limbs and feet

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true primates

C  the first true mammals

D  the first true catarrhini

A  proconsulids

B  driopithecids

C  adapids

D  plesiadapiforms

A  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

B  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

C  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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

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  nonrelative

C  genetic

D  chronometric

A  stone

B  teeth

C  wood

D  shells

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  amino acid dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  carbon 14 dating

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

B  a fossil found in a particular site

C  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

D  The type specimen of a species

A  carbon 13 and carbon 12

B  indes fossils

C  isotopes in general

D  carbon 14

A  superposition

B  electron spin resonance

C  dendrochronology

D  thermoluminescence

A  carbon 14

B  biostratigraphy

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  Dendrochronology

A  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

B  mud

C  Rock

D  sand

A  forensic biology

B  cryptozoology

C  taphonomy

D  archaeology

A  William Smith

B  Richard Owen

C  Charles Lyell

D  Alfred Wallace