Exam 3

A  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

C  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

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

A  Ethiopia

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  robust australopithecine

D  fully adult female

A  shape of the femur

B  the shape of the pelvis

C  the elbow

D  the position of the foramen magnum

A  sedimentary sandstone

B  mud and siltstone deposits

C  limestone caves

D  lava flows/basalt layers

A  fossilized footprints

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  australopithecines

D  Kenya

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

C  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

D  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

A  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

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

D  the fossils were discovered in England

A  a sagittal crest

B  all of these

C  small front teeth and large back teeth

D  a small brain 

A  Kenya

B  Egypt

C  Ethiopia

D  Chad

A  length of the femur

B  arch in the foot

C  position of the foramen magnum

D  shape of the pelvis

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

C  Paranthropus

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  able to run faster

B  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

C  able to climb more efficiently

D  able to sleep more easily

A  tool use

B  hunting

C  speech

D  habitual bipedal locomotion

A  Proconsul

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Dryopithecus

D  Apidium

A  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

D  Proconsul and Carpolestes

A  Oligopithecus

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Parapithecus

A  humans

B  apes

C  monkeys

D  prosimians

A  gorilla

B  chimpanzee

C  gibbon

D  orangutan

A  Peru

B  France

C  India

D  China

A  pelvis

B  lower premolar tooth

C  ankle

D  skull

A  ape

B  New World monkey

C  primate

D  anthropoid

A  hands and feet

B  eyes and ears

C  noses and eyes

D  hind limbs and feet

A  the first true mammals

B  the first anthropoids

C  the first true primates

D  the first true catarrhini

A  plesiadapiforms

B  adapids

C  driopithecids

D  proconsulids

A  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

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

C  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

D  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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

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

C  useful for tracking temperature change

D  live in the world’s oceans

A  nonrelative

B  chronometric

C  genetic

D  chemical

A  shells

B  stone

C  wood

D  teeth

A  bone, wood, and stone

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  bone, shell and fabric

D  sediment, stone and ceramics

A  amino acid dating

B  carbon 14 dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  electron spin resonance dating

A  The type specimen of a species

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

C  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  carbon 14

B  carbon 13 and carbon 12

C  indes fossils

D  isotopes in general

A  electron spin resonance

B  dendrochronology

C  thermoluminescence

D  superposition

A  Steno’s law of superposition

B  Dendrochronology

C  biostratigraphy

D  carbon 14

A  sand

B  mud

C  Rock

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  taphonomy

B  archaeology

C  cryptozoology

D  forensic biology

A  Charles Lyell

B  Richard Owen

C  William Smith

D  Alfred Wallace