Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

A  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

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

D  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

A  robust australopithecine

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  fully adult female

D  Ethiopia

A  shape of the femur

B  the shape of the pelvis

C  the position of the foramen magnum

D  the elbow

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  limestone caves

D  mud and siltstone deposits

A  australopithecines

B  fossilized footprints

C  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

D  Kenya

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

C  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

D  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

A  the fossils were discovered in England

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

C  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

A  all of these

B  a small brain 

C  small front teeth and large back teeth

D  a sagittal crest

A  Chad

B  Egypt

C  Ethiopia

D  Kenya

A  length of the femur

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  arch in the foot

D  shape of the pelvis

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  Paranthropus

D  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

A  able to climb more efficiently

B  able to sleep more easily

C  able to run faster

D  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

A  hunting

B  speech

C  tool use

D  habitual bipedal locomotion

A  Dryopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Proconsul

A  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

B  Proconsul and Carpolestes

C  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Oligopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Parapithecus

A  humans

B  monkeys

C  apes

D  prosimians

A  orangutan

B  gibbon

C  gorilla

D  chimpanzee

A  Peru

B  India

C  China

D  France

A  lower premolar tooth

B  pelvis

C  ankle

D  skull

A  New World monkey

B  anthropoid

C  primate

D  ape

A  hands and feet

B  hind limbs and feet

C  noses and eyes

D  eyes and ears

A  the first true catarrhini

B  the first anthropoids

C  the first true primates

D  the first true mammals

A  driopithecids

B  adapids

C  proconsulids

D  plesiadapiforms

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

C  useful for tracking temperature change

D  live in the world’s oceans

A  genetic

B  nonrelative

C  chronometric

D  chemical

A  wood

B  teeth

C  stone

D  shells

A  bone, shell and fabric

B  bone, wood, and stone

C  shell, ceramics, and wood

D  sediment, stone and ceramics

A  amino acid dating

B  carbon 14 dating

C  electron spin resonance dating

D  potassium-argon dating

A  The type specimen of a species

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

C  a fossil found in a particular site

D  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

A  isotopes in general

B  indes fossils

C  carbon 14

D  carbon 13 and carbon 12

A  superposition

B  dendrochronology

C  thermoluminescence

D  electron spin resonance

A  carbon 14

B  biostratigraphy

C  Dendrochronology

D  Steno’s law of superposition

A  Rock

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  mud

D  sand

A  forensic biology

B  archaeology

C  taphonomy

D  cryptozoology

A  William Smith

B  Alfred Wallace

C  Charles Lyell

D  Richard Owen