Exam 3

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

B  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

D  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

A  Ethiopia

B  fully adult female

C  robust australopithecine

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  the position of the foramen magnum

B  the elbow

C  shape of the femur

D  the shape of the pelvis

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  limestone caves

D  mud and siltstone deposits

A  Kenya

B  australopithecines

C  fossilized footprints

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  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  a small brain 

B  all of these

C  small front teeth and large back teeth

D  a sagittal crest

A  Egypt

B  Kenya

C  Chad

D  Ethiopia

A  position of the foramen magnum

B  shape of the pelvis

C  length of the femur

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 sleep more easily

D  able to climb more efficiently

A  habitual bipedal locomotion

B  speech

C  hunting

D  tool use

A  Proconsul

B  Dryopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

B  Proconsul and Carpolestes

C  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

D  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

A  Apidium

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Parapithecus

D  Oligopithecus

A  monkeys

B  prosimians

C  humans

D  apes

A  orangutan

B  gibbon

C  chimpanzee

D  gorilla

A  France

B  China

C  Peru

D  India

A  lower premolar tooth

B  skull

C  pelvis

D  ankle

A  New World monkey

B  anthropoid

C  ape

D  primate

A  noses and eyes

B  eyes and ears

C  hind limbs and feet

D  hands and feet

A  the first true primates

B  the first true catarrhini

C  the first anthropoids

D  the first true mammals

A  driopithecids

B  proconsulids

C  adapids

D  plesiadapiforms

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

B  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

C  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

D  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

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  chronometric

B  genetic

C  chemical

D  nonrelative

A  shells

B  teeth

C  wood

D  stone

A  sediment, stone and ceramics

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  bone, wood, and stone

D  bone, shell and fabric

A  potassium-argon dating

B  amino acid dating

C  carbon 14 dating

D  electron spin resonance dating

A  The type specimen of a species

B  a fossil found in a particular site

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

D  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

A  isotopes in general

B  carbon 14

C  indes fossils

D  carbon 13 and carbon 12

A  dendrochronology

B  electron spin resonance

C  thermoluminescence

D  superposition

A  Steno’s law of superposition

B  biostratigraphy

C  Dendrochronology

D  carbon 14

A  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

B  mud

C  Rock

D  sand

A  taphonomy

B  forensic biology

C  archaeology

D  cryptozoology

A  Richard Owen

B  William Smith

C  Alfred Wallace

D  Charles Lyell