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  robust australopithecine

B  fully adult female

C  Ethiopia

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  australopithecines

B  Kenya

C  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

D  fossilized footprints

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

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

B  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

D  the fossils were discovered in England

A  a small brain 

B  a sagittal crest

C  all of these

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Chad

B  Egypt

C  Kenya

D  Ethiopia

A  length of the femur

B  arch in the foot

C  position of the foramen magnum

D  shape of the pelvis

A  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

B  Paranthropus

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  Orrorin tugenensis

A  able to sleep more easily

B  able to run faster

C  able to climb more efficiently

D  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

A  speech

B  habitual bipedal locomotion

C  hunting

D  tool use

A  Apidium

B  Proconsul

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Dryopithecus

A  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

B  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

C  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

D  Proconsul and Carpolestes

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Oligopithecus

D  Parapithecus

A  humans

B  monkeys

C  prosimians

D  apes

A  gibbon

B  gorilla

C  chimpanzee

D  orangutan

A  Peru

B  France

C  China

D  India

A  pelvis

B  skull

C  lower premolar tooth

D  ankle

A  primate

B  New World monkey

C  anthropoid

D  ape

A  eyes and ears

B  hind limbs and feet

C  noses and eyes

D  hands and feet

A  the first true primates

B  the first true catarrhini

C  the first true mammals

D  the first anthropoids

A  adapids

B  plesiadapiforms

C  driopithecids

D  proconsulids

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

B  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

C  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

D  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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  genetic

B  chronometric

C  chemical

D  nonrelative

A  stone

B  teeth

C  shells

D  wood

A  bone, shell and fabric

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  bone, wood, and stone

D  sediment, stone and ceramics

A  carbon 14 dating

B  electron spin resonance dating

C  amino acid dating

D  potassium-argon dating

A  The type specimen of a species

B  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

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

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  indes fossils

B  isotopes in general

C  carbon 13 and carbon 12

D  carbon 14

A  dendrochronology

B  thermoluminescence

C  superposition

D  electron spin resonance

A  biostratigraphy

B  carbon 14

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  Dendrochronology

A  Rock

B  sand

C  mud

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  forensic biology

B  archaeology

C  taphonomy

D  cryptozoology

A  William Smith

B  Alfred Wallace

C  Richard Owen

D  Charles Lyell