Exam 3

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

A  robust australopithecine

B  fully adult female

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  Ethiopia

A  shape of the femur

B  the shape of the pelvis

C  the position of the foramen magnum

D  the elbow

A  sedimentary sandstone

B  lava flows/basalt layers

C  limestone caves

D  mud and siltstone deposits

A  australopithecines

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  fossilized footprints

D  Kenya

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

C  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

D  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

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

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

C  the fossils were discovered in England

D  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

A  a sagittal crest

B  small front teeth and large back teeth

C  all of these

D  a small brain 

A  Kenya

B  Egypt

C  Ethiopia

D  Chad

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  Australopithecus afarensis

D  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

A  able to run faster

B  able to sleep more easily

C  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

D  able to climb more efficiently

A  speech

B  habitual bipedal locomotion

C  hunting

D  tool use

A  Proconsul

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Apidium

D  Dryopithecus

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

C  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Oligopithecus

B  Parapithecus

C  Apidium

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  humans

B  prosimians

C  apes

D  monkeys

A  gorilla

B  chimpanzee

C  gibbon

D  orangutan

A  India

B  China

C  France

D  Peru

A  ankle

B  lower premolar tooth

C  pelvis

D  skull

A  anthropoid

B  ape

C  primate

D  New World monkey

A  hands and feet

B  hind limbs and feet

C  noses and eyes

D  eyes and ears

A  the first true mammals

B  the first true primates

C  the first true catarrhini

D  the first anthropoids

A  adapids

B  driopithecids

C  proconsulids

D  plesiadapiforms

A  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

B  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

C  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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

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  chemical

D  genetic

A  teeth

B  wood

C  stone

D  shells

A  sediment, stone and ceramics

B  bone, shell and fabric

C  bone, wood, and stone

D  shell, ceramics, and wood

A  amino acid dating

B  potassium-argon dating

C  carbon 14 dating

D  electron spin resonance dating

A  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

B  The type specimen of a species

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

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  isotopes in general

B  indes fossils

C  carbon 13 and carbon 12

D  carbon 14

A  superposition

B  dendrochronology

C  thermoluminescence

D  electron spin resonance

A  Dendrochronology

B  carbon 14

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  biostratigraphy

A  mud

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  sand

D  Rock

A  cryptozoology

B  forensic biology

C  taphonomy

D  archaeology

A  Charles Lyell

B  Alfred Wallace

C  Richard Owen

D  William Smith