Exam 3

A  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

C  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

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

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  fully adult female

C  robust australopithecine

D  Ethiopia

A  the elbow

B  the position of the foramen magnum

C  the shape of the pelvis

D  shape of the femur

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  mud and siltstone deposits

C  limestone caves

D  sedimentary sandstone

A  australopithecines

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  Kenya

D  fossilized footprints

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

C  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

D  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

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

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

C  the fossils were discovered in England

D  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

A  all of these

B  a sagittal crest

C  a small brain 

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Chad

B  Kenya

C  Ethiopia

D  Egypt

A  length of the femur

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  shape of the pelvis

D  arch in the foot

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  tool use

B  hunting

C  habitual bipedal locomotion

D  speech

A  Proconsul

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Dryopithecus

A  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Proconsul and Carpolestes

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Apidium

B  Parapithecus

C  Aegyptopithecus

D  Oligopithecus

A  apes

B  monkeys

C  humans

D  prosimians

A  chimpanzee

B  gibbon

C  orangutan

D  gorilla

A  India

B  Peru

C  China

D  France

A  skull

B  ankle

C  lower premolar tooth

D  pelvis

A  ape

B  anthropoid

C  primate

D  New World monkey

A  hands and feet

B  eyes and ears

C  hind limbs and feet

D  noses and eyes

A  the first true catarrhini

B  the first true mammals

C  the first anthropoids

D  the first true primates

A  proconsulids

B  adapids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  driopithecids

A  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

B  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

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

D  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

A  useful for tracking temperature change

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

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

D  live in the world’s oceans

A  genetic

B  chemical

C  chronometric

D  nonrelative

A  stone

B  wood

C  teeth

D  shells

A  sediment, stone and ceramics

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  bone, shell and fabric

D  bone, wood, and stone

A  electron spin resonance dating

B  potassium-argon dating

C  amino acid dating

D  carbon 14 dating

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

B  a fossil found in a particular site

C  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

D  The type specimen of a species

A  carbon 13 and carbon 12

B  isotopes in general

C  indes fossils

D  carbon 14

A  thermoluminescence

B  dendrochronology

C  electron spin resonance

D  superposition

A  biostratigraphy

B  Steno’s law of superposition

C  carbon 14

D  Dendrochronology

A  Rock

B  mud

C  sand

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  forensic biology

B  cryptozoology

C  archaeology

D  taphonomy

A  Alfred Wallace

B  Richard Owen

C  Charles Lyell

D  William Smith