Exam 3

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

B  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

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

D  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  fully adult female

C  Ethiopia

D  robust australopithecine

A  shape of the femur

B  the position of the foramen magnum

C  the elbow

D  the shape of the pelvis

A  sedimentary sandstone

B  lava flows/basalt layers

C  mud and siltstone deposits

D  limestone caves

A  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

B  fossilized footprints

C  australopithecines

D  Kenya

A  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

B  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

C  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

D  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

A  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

B  the fossils were discovered in England

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

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

A  a sagittal crest

B  small front teeth and large back teeth

C  a small brain 

D  all of these

A  Chad

B  Kenya

C  Egypt

D  Ethiopia

A  position of the foramen magnum

B  arch in the foot

C  shape of the pelvis

D  length of the femur

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Paranthropus

C  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  able to run faster

B  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

C  able to sleep more easily

D  able to climb more efficiently

A  speech

B  hunting

C  habitual bipedal locomotion

D  tool use

A  Dryopithecus

B  Proconsul

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Apidium

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

C  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

D  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

A  Oligopithecus

B  Parapithecus

C  Apidium

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  monkeys

B  apes

C  prosimians

D  humans

A  chimpanzee

B  orangutan

C  gibbon

D  gorilla

A  India

B  France

C  China

D  Peru

A  lower premolar tooth

B  pelvis

C  ankle

D  skull

A  ape

B  anthropoid

C  New World monkey

D  primate

A  eyes and ears

B  noses and eyes

C  hands and feet

D  hind limbs and feet

A  the first true mammals

B  the first true catarrhini

C  the first anthropoids

D  the first true primates

A  adapids

B  plesiadapiforms

C  driopithecids

D  proconsulids

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

B  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

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  useful for tracking temperature change

C  live in the world’s oceans

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

A  genetic

B  nonrelative

C  chemical

D  chronometric

A  teeth

B  stone

C  wood

D  shells

A  shell, ceramics, and wood

B  sediment, stone and ceramics

C  bone, wood, and stone

D  bone, shell and fabric

A  electron spin resonance dating

B  potassium-argon dating

C  carbon 14 dating

D  amino acid dating

A  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

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

C  The type specimen of a species

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  carbon 13 and carbon 12

B  isotopes in general

C  carbon 14

D  indes fossils

A  electron spin resonance

B  superposition

C  thermoluminescence

D  dendrochronology

A  biostratigraphy

B  carbon 14

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  Dendrochronology

A  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

B  Rock

C  sand

D  mud

A  forensic biology

B  archaeology

C  taphonomy

D  cryptozoology

A  Charles Lyell

B  Richard Owen

C  Alfred Wallace

D  William Smith