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  Australopithecus afarensis

B  Ethiopia

C  robust australopithecine

D  fully adult female

A  the position of the foramen magnum

B  shape of the femur

C  the shape of the pelvis

D  the elbow

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  mud and siltstone deposits

C  sedimentary sandstone

D  limestone caves

A  Kenya

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  fossilized footprints

D  australopithecines

A  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

B  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

C  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

D  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

A  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

C  the fossils were discovered in England

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

A  small front teeth and large back teeth

B  a sagittal crest

C  all of these

D  a small brain 

A  Kenya

B  Egypt

C  Chad

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 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  hunting

B  habitual bipedal locomotion

C  tool use

D  speech

A  Proconsul

B  Dryopithecus

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Apidium

A  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

B  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

C  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

D  Proconsul and Carpolestes

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Parapithecus

C  Oligopithecus

D  Apidium

A  humans

B  apes

C  monkeys

D  prosimians

A  gibbon

B  gorilla

C  orangutan

D  chimpanzee

A  China

B  Peru

C  France

D  India

A  lower premolar tooth

B  skull

C  ankle

D  pelvis

A  New World monkey

B  primate

C  ape

D  anthropoid

A  noses and eyes

B  hands and feet

C  eyes and ears

D  hind limbs and feet

A  the first true primates

B  the first true mammals

C  the first anthropoids

D  the first true catarrhini

A  driopithecids

B  adapids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  proconsulids

A  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

B  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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

D  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

A  live in the world’s oceans

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

A  chemical

B  genetic

C  chronometric

D  nonrelative

A  wood

B  shells

C  stone

D  teeth

A  shell, ceramics, and wood

B  bone, shell and fabric

C  sediment, stone and ceramics

D  bone, wood, and stone

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  isotopes in general

D  indes fossils

A  dendrochronology

B  superposition

C  thermoluminescence

D  electron spin resonance

A  Dendrochronology

B  Steno’s law of superposition

C  biostratigraphy

D  carbon 14

A  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

B  Rock

C  sand

D  mud

A  archaeology

B  taphonomy

C  cryptozoology

D  forensic biology

A  Alfred Wallace

B  William Smith

C  Charles Lyell

D  Richard Owen