Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

A  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

C  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

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

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  robust australopithecine

C  fully adult female

D  Ethiopia

A  shape of the femur

B  the shape of the pelvis

C  the elbow

D  the position of the foramen magnum

A  sedimentary sandstone

B  lava flows/basalt layers

C  mud and siltstone deposits

D  limestone caves

A  Kenya

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  australopithecines

D  fossilized footprints

A  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

B  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

C  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

D  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

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

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

C  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

D  the fossils were discovered in England

A  a sagittal crest

B  all of these

C  small front teeth and large back teeth

D  a small brain 

A  Ethiopia

B  Kenya

C  Chad

D  Egypt

A  length of the femur

B  shape of the pelvis

C  position of the foramen magnum

D  arch in the foot

A  Paranthropus

B  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  Orrorin tugenensis

A  able to sleep more easily

B  able to climb more efficiently

C  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

D  able to run faster

A  tool use

B  habitual bipedal locomotion

C  speech

D  hunting

A  Dryopithecus

B  Proconsul

C  Apidium

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

C  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

D  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

A  Apidium

B  Parapithecus

C  Oligopithecus

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  monkeys

B  apes

C  prosimians

D  humans

A  chimpanzee

B  orangutan

C  gorilla

D  gibbon

A  India

B  France

C  Peru

D  China

A  lower premolar tooth

B  ankle

C  pelvis

D  skull

A  anthropoid

B  ape

C  primate

D  New World monkey

A  hands and feet

B  eyes and ears

C  hind limbs and feet

D  noses and eyes

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true mammals

C  the first true primates

D  the first true catarrhini

A  proconsulids

B  adapids

C  driopithecids

D  plesiadapiforms

A  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

B  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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

D  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

A  live in the world’s oceans

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

A  chemical

B  genetic

C  chronometric

D  nonrelative

A  stone

B  shells

C  wood

D  teeth

A  sediment, stone and ceramics

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  bone, wood, and stone

D  bone, shell and fabric

A  amino acid dating

B  carbon 14 dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  electron spin resonance dating

A  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

B  a fossil found in a particular site

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

D  The type specimen of a species

A  indes fossils

B  carbon 13 and carbon 12

C  isotopes in general

D  carbon 14

A  electron spin resonance

B  thermoluminescence

C  dendrochronology

D  superposition

A  Dendrochronology

B  biostratigraphy

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  carbon 14

A  mud

B  Rock

C  sand

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  cryptozoology

B  archaeology

C  taphonomy

D  forensic biology

A  Alfred Wallace

B  William Smith

C  Richard Owen

D  Charles Lyell