Exam 3

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  fully adult female

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  robust australopithecine

D  Ethiopia

A  the shape of the pelvis

B  the position of the foramen magnum

C  the elbow

D  shape of the femur

A  limestone caves

B  mud and siltstone deposits

C  lava flows/basalt layers

D  sedimentary sandstone

A  Kenya

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  fossilized footprints

D  australopithecines

A  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

B  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

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

B  the fossils were discovered in England

C  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

A  a small brain 

B  small front teeth and large back teeth

C  all of these

D  a sagittal crest

A  Ethiopia

B  Egypt

C  Kenya

D  Chad

A  length of the femur

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  shape of the pelvis

D  arch in the foot

A  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  Orrorin tugenensis

D  Paranthropus

A  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

B  able to run faster

C  able to climb more efficiently

D  able to sleep more easily

A  tool use

B  habitual bipedal locomotion

C  speech

D  hunting

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Proconsul

C  Apidium

D  Dryopithecus

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

C  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

D  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

A  Oligopithecus

B  Parapithecus

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Apidium

A  apes

B  monkeys

C  prosimians

D  humans

A  gibbon

B  orangutan

C  chimpanzee

D  gorilla

A  India

B  France

C  China

D  Peru

A  skull

B  ankle

C  pelvis

D  lower premolar tooth

A  primate

B  New World monkey

C  ape

D  anthropoid

A  eyes and ears

B  noses and eyes

C  hind limbs and feet

D  hands and feet

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true primates

C  the first true catarrhini

D  the first true mammals

A  proconsulids

B  plesiadapiforms

C  adapids

D  driopithecids

A  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

B  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

C  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

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

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

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  useful for tracking temperature change

A  genetic

B  nonrelative

C  chronometric

D  chemical

A  wood

B  shells

C  teeth

D  stone

A  bone, shell and fabric

B  bone, wood, and stone

C  sediment, stone and ceramics

D  shell, ceramics, and wood

A  carbon 14 dating

B  amino acid dating

C  electron spin resonance dating

D  potassium-argon dating

A  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

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

C  The type specimen of a species

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  indes fossils

B  carbon 14

C  carbon 13 and carbon 12

D  isotopes in general

A  superposition

B  dendrochronology

C  electron spin resonance

D  thermoluminescence

A  Dendrochronology

B  carbon 14

C  biostratigraphy

D  Steno’s law of superposition

A  sand

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  Rock

D  mud

A  cryptozoology

B  archaeology

C  forensic biology

D  taphonomy

A  Charles Lyell

B  Richard Owen

C  Alfred Wallace

D  William Smith