Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

A  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

B  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

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

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

A  fully adult female

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  Ethiopia

D  robust australopithecine

A  the shape of the pelvis

B  the elbow

C  shape of the femur

D  the position of the foramen magnum

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  limestone caves

C  mud and siltstone deposits

D  sedimentary sandstone

A  australopithecines

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  fossilized footprints

D  Kenya

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Uganda, Ethiopia, 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  all of these

C  a small brain 

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Kenya

B  Egypt

C  Chad

D  Ethiopia

A  shape of the pelvis

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  arch in the foot

D  length of the femur

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  Paranthropus

C  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

D  Orrorin tugenensis

A  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

B  able to sleep more easily

C  able to run faster

D  able to climb more efficiently

A  speech

B  hunting

C  habitual bipedal locomotion

D  tool use

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Proconsul

D  Dryopithecus

A  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Proconsul and Carpolestes

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Parapithecus

C  Apidium

D  Oligopithecus

A  apes

B  monkeys

C  humans

D  prosimians

A  gibbon

B  gorilla

C  orangutan

D  chimpanzee

A  Peru

B  India

C  France

D  China

A  skull

B  pelvis

C  ankle

D  lower premolar tooth

A  anthropoid

B  ape

C  primate

D  New World monkey

A  hind limbs and feet

B  noses and eyes

C  hands and feet

D  eyes and ears

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true primates

C  the first true mammals

D  the first true catarrhini

A  plesiadapiforms

B  adapids

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  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

D  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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  chronometric

B  nonrelative

C  chemical

D  genetic

A  stone

B  teeth

C  shells

D  wood

A  bone, wood, and stone

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  sediment, stone and ceramics

D  bone, shell and fabric

A  amino acid dating

B  potassium-argon dating

C  electron spin resonance dating

D  carbon 14 dating

A  a fossil found in a particular site

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

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  electron spin resonance

B  dendrochronology

C  superposition

D  thermoluminescence

A  Steno’s law of superposition

B  biostratigraphy

C  Dendrochronology

D  carbon 14

A  sand

B  Rock

C  mud

D  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

A  archaeology

B  taphonomy

C  forensic biology

D  cryptozoology

A  Charles Lyell

B  William Smith

C  Richard Owen

D  Alfred Wallace