Exam 3

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

B  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

C  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  fully adult female

C  robust australopithecine

D  Ethiopia

A  the position of the foramen magnum

B  the shape of the pelvis

C  shape of the femur

D  the elbow

A  sedimentary sandstone

B  lava flows/basalt layers

C  limestone caves

D  mud and siltstone deposits

A  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

B  Kenya

C  australopithecines

D  fossilized footprints

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

C  Uganda, Ethiopia, 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 small brain 

C  small front teeth and large back teeth

D  a sagittal crest

A  Chad

B  Ethiopia

C  Egypt

D  Kenya

A  shape of the pelvis

B  arch in the foot

C  length of the femur

D  position of the foramen magnum

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  Orrorin tugenensis

C  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

D  Paranthropus

A  able to run faster

B  able to climb more efficiently

C  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

D  able to sleep more easily

A  habitual bipedal locomotion

B  hunting

C  speech

D  tool use

A  Proconsul

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Dryopithecus

D  Apidium

A  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

D  Proconsul and Carpolestes

A  Apidium

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Oligopithecus

D  Parapithecus

A  humans

B  apes

C  monkeys

D  prosimians

A  gorilla

B  chimpanzee

C  gibbon

D  orangutan

A  China

B  India

C  France

D  Peru

A  ankle

B  skull

C  pelvis

D  lower premolar tooth

A  New World monkey

B  anthropoid

C  primate

D  ape

A  hands and feet

B  hind limbs and feet

C  eyes and ears

D  noses and eyes

A  the first true mammals

B  the first true catarrhini

C  the first anthropoids

D  the first true primates

A  plesiadapiforms

B  driopithecids

C  adapids

D  proconsulids

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

B  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

C  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

D  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

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

B  live in the world’s oceans

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

D  useful for tracking temperature change

A  chronometric

B  nonrelative

C  chemical

D  genetic

A  shells

B  wood

C  teeth

D  stone

A  shell, ceramics, and wood

B  sediment, stone and ceramics

C  bone, shell and fabric

D  bone, wood, and stone

A  potassium-argon dating

B  electron spin resonance dating

C  carbon 14 dating

D  amino acid dating

A  a fossil found in a particular site

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

C  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

D  The type specimen of a species

A  isotopes in general

B  carbon 13 and carbon 12

C  carbon 14

D  indes fossils

A  electron spin resonance

B  thermoluminescence

C  superposition

D  dendrochronology

A  Dendrochronology

B  carbon 14

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  biostratigraphy

A  mud

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  Rock

D  sand

A  taphonomy

B  archaeology

C  cryptozoology

D  forensic biology

A  Charles Lyell

B  Alfred Wallace

C  William Smith

D  Richard Owen