Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

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

B  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

C  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

A  robust australopithecine

B  Ethiopia

C  fully adult female

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  shape of the femur

B  the position of the foramen magnum

C  the shape of the pelvis

D  the elbow

A  limestone caves

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  lava flows/basalt layers

D  mud and siltstone deposits

A  fossilized footprints

B  Kenya

C  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

D  australopithecines

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

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

B  the fossils were discovered in England

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

D  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

A  a sagittal crest

B  all of these

C  a small brain 

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Kenya

B  Egypt

C  Chad

D  Ethiopia

A  arch in the foot

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  shape of the pelvis

D  length of the femur

A  Paranthropus

B  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  Orrorin tugenensis

A  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

B  able to sleep more easily

C  able to climb more efficiently

D  able to run faster

A  tool use

B  habitual bipedal locomotion

C  hunting

D  speech

A  Dryopithecus

B  Proconsul

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Apidium

A  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Proconsul and Carpolestes

D  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

A  Oligopithecus

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Parapithecus

A  monkeys

B  apes

C  humans

D  prosimians

A  orangutan

B  gorilla

C  gibbon

D  chimpanzee

A  Peru

B  France

C  China

D  India

A  ankle

B  pelvis

C  skull

D  lower premolar tooth

A  New World monkey

B  primate

C  anthropoid

D  ape

A  hind limbs and feet

B  eyes and ears

C  noses and eyes

D  hands and feet

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true primates

C  the first true catarrhini

D  the first true mammals

A  adapids

B  proconsulids

C  driopithecids

D  plesiadapiforms

A  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater 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, tails and intelligence

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

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

C  live in the world’s oceans

D  useful for tracking temperature change

A  chemical

B  genetic

C  chronometric

D  nonrelative

A  wood

B  teeth

C  shells

D  stone

A  bone, shell and fabric

B  bone, wood, and stone

C  sediment, stone and ceramics

D  shell, ceramics, and wood

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  The type specimen of a species

C  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  carbon 14

B  indes fossils

C  carbon 13 and carbon 12

D  isotopes in general

A  superposition

B  dendrochronology

C  electron spin resonance

D  thermoluminescence

A  Steno’s law of superposition

B  biostratigraphy

C  carbon 14

D  Dendrochronology

A  mud

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  Rock

D  sand

A  archaeology

B  cryptozoology

C  taphonomy

D  forensic biology

A  Richard Owen

B  Alfred Wallace

C  William Smith

D  Charles Lyell