Exam 3

A  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

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

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

D  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  Ethiopia

C  robust australopithecine

D  fully adult female

A  shape of the femur

B  the elbow

C  the shape of the pelvis

D  the position of the foramen magnum

A  mud and siltstone deposits

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  lava flows/basalt layers

D  limestone caves

A  australopithecines

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  fossilized footprints

D  Kenya

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

C  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

D  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

A  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

B  the fossils were discovered in England

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

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

A  a sagittal crest

B  all of these

C  a small brain 

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Kenya

B  Egypt

C  Ethiopia

D  Chad

A  shape of the pelvis

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  length of the femur

D  arch in the foot

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Paranthropus

C  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  able to climb more efficiently

B  able to sleep more easily

C  able to run faster

D  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

A  habitual bipedal locomotion

B  speech

C  hunting

D  tool use

A  Dryopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Proconsul

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

B  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

C  Proconsul and Carpolestes

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Parapithecus

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Oligopithecus

D  Apidium

A  apes

B  prosimians

C  monkeys

D  humans

A  orangutan

B  gibbon

C  gorilla

D  chimpanzee

A  China

B  India

C  Peru

D  France

A  pelvis

B  skull

C  lower premolar tooth

D  ankle

A  anthropoid

B  primate

C  New World monkey

D  ape

A  hind limbs and feet

B  hands and feet

C  noses and eyes

D  eyes and ears

A  the first true catarrhini

B  the first anthropoids

C  the first true mammals

D  the first true primates

A  driopithecids

B  proconsulids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  adapids

A  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

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

C  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

D  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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

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  live in the world’s oceans

A  chemical

B  nonrelative

C  genetic

D  chronometric

A  stone

B  wood

C  teeth

D  shells

A  bone, shell and fabric

B  sediment, stone and ceramics

C  shell, ceramics, and wood

D  bone, wood, and stone

A  potassium-argon dating

B  amino acid dating

C  electron spin resonance dating

D  carbon 14 dating

A  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

B  a fossil found in a particular site

C  The type specimen of a species

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

A  isotopes in general

B  indes fossils

C  carbon 13 and carbon 12

D  carbon 14

A  superposition

B  thermoluminescence

C  electron spin resonance

D  dendrochronology

A  Dendrochronology

B  biostratigraphy

C  carbon 14

D  Steno’s law of superposition

A  Rock

B  mud

C  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

D  sand

A  taphonomy

B  cryptozoology

C  archaeology

D  forensic biology

A  Richard Owen

B  William Smith

C  Charles Lyell

D  Alfred Wallace