Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

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  Ethiopia

B  fully adult female

C  robust australopithecine

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  the position of the foramen magnum

B  shape of the femur

C  the shape of the pelvis

D  the elbow

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  limestone caves

D  mud and siltstone deposits

A  fossilized footprints

B  Kenya

C  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

D  australopithecines

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

C  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

D  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

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

B  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

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  Ethiopia

C  Kenya

D  Chad

A  length of the femur

B  shape of the pelvis

C  arch in the foot

D  position of the foramen magnum

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  Paranthropus

D  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

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  speech

B  hunting

C  habitual bipedal locomotion

D  tool use

A  Dryopithecus

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Proconsul

D  Apidium

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Apidium

B  Parapithecus

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Oligopithecus

A  apes

B  prosimians

C  monkeys

D  humans

A  gibbon

B  chimpanzee

C  gorilla

D  orangutan

A  Peru

B  France

C  India

D  China

A  pelvis

B  skull

C  lower premolar tooth

D  ankle

A  anthropoid

B  ape

C  New World monkey

D  primate

A  eyes and ears

B  hands and feet

C  hind limbs and feet

D  noses and eyes

A  the first true catarrhini

B  the first true primates

C  the first true mammals

D  the first anthropoids

A  driopithecids

B  proconsulids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  adapids

A  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

B  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

C  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

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

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  chronometric

D  genetic

A  shells

B  stone

C  wood

D  teeth

A  bone, wood, and stone

B  sediment, stone and ceramics

C  bone, shell and fabric

D  shell, ceramics, and wood

A  potassium-argon dating

B  amino acid dating

C  electron spin resonance dating

D  carbon 14 dating

A  a fossil found in a particular site

B  The type specimen of a species

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

D  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

A  carbon 13 and carbon 12

B  carbon 14

C  indes fossils

D  isotopes in general

A  electron spin resonance

B  dendrochronology

C  thermoluminescence

D  superposition

A  Dendrochronology

B  Steno’s law of superposition

C  biostratigraphy

D  carbon 14

A  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

B  sand

C  Rock

D  mud

A  cryptozoology

B  forensic biology

C  taphonomy

D  archaeology

A  Charles Lyell

B  William Smith

C  Alfred Wallace

D  Richard Owen