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  Ethiopia

B  robust australopithecine

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  fully adult female

A  shape of the femur

B  the shape of the pelvis

C  the elbow

D  the position of the foramen magnum

A  mud and siltstone deposits

B  lava flows/basalt layers

C  sedimentary sandstone

D  limestone caves

A  Kenya

B  fossilized footprints

C  australopithecines

D  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

A  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

B  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

C  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

D  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

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 small brain 

B  all of these

C  a sagittal crest

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Ethiopia

B  Egypt

C  Kenya

D  Chad

A  position of the foramen magnum

B  shape of the pelvis

C  arch in the foot

D  length of the femur

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

C  Paranthropus

D  Australopithecus afarensis

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  speech

B  habitual bipedal locomotion

C  tool use

D  hunting

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Proconsul

C  Apidium

D  Dryopithecus

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

C  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Parapithecus

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Oligopithecus

A  humans

B  monkeys

C  prosimians

D  apes

A  gibbon

B  gorilla

C  orangutan

D  chimpanzee

A  China

B  France

C  Peru

D  India

A  skull

B  lower premolar tooth

C  ankle

D  pelvis

A  anthropoid

B  ape

C  primate

D  New World monkey

A  hind limbs and feet

B  hands and feet

C  noses and eyes

D  eyes and ears

A  the first true primates

B  the first true mammals

C  the first true catarrhini

D  the first anthropoids

A  adapids

B  proconsulids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  driopithecids

A  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

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

C  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

D  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

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

B  useful for tracking temperature change

C  live in the world’s oceans

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

A  genetic

B  chronometric

C  nonrelative

D  chemical

A  teeth

B  stone

C  shells

D  wood

A  sediment, stone and ceramics

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  bone, shell and fabric

D  bone, wood, and stone

A  carbon 14 dating

B  amino acid dating

C  electron spin resonance dating

D  potassium-argon dating

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

B  a fossil found in a particular site

C  The type specimen of a species

D  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

A  indes fossils

B  carbon 13 and carbon 12

C  carbon 14

D  isotopes in general

A  thermoluminescence

B  dendrochronology

C  superposition

D  electron spin resonance

A  Steno’s law of superposition

B  biostratigraphy

C  carbon 14

D  Dendrochronology

A  sand

B  mud

C  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

D  Rock

A  cryptozoology

B  taphonomy

C  archaeology

D  forensic biology

A  Richard Owen

B  William Smith

C  Charles Lyell

D  Alfred Wallace