Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

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  robust australopithecine

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  fully adult female

D  Ethiopia

A  the elbow

B  shape of the femur

C  the shape of the pelvis

D  the position of the foramen magnum

A  sedimentary sandstone

B  mud and siltstone deposits

C  lava flows/basalt layers

D  limestone caves

A  fossilized footprints

B  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

C  Kenya

D  australopithecines

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

C  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

D  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

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

B  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

D  the fossils were discovered in England

A  a small brain 

B  a sagittal crest

C  all of these

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Kenya

B  Ethiopia

C  Egypt

D  Chad

A  shape of the pelvis

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  length of the femur

D  arch in the foot

A  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  Orrorin tugenensis

D  Paranthropus

A  able to climb more efficiently

B  able to run faster

C  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

D  able to sleep more easily

A  tool use

B  hunting

C  habitual bipedal locomotion

D  speech

A  Apidium

B  Dryopithecus

C  Proconsul

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

D  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

A  Apidium

B  Oligopithecus

C  Parapithecus

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  prosimians

B  apes

C  humans

D  monkeys

A  gorilla

B  orangutan

C  chimpanzee

D  gibbon

A  France

B  China

C  Peru

D  India

A  skull

B  pelvis

C  ankle

D  lower premolar tooth

A  primate

B  New World monkey

C  anthropoid

D  ape

A  hands and feet

B  noses and eyes

C  hind limbs and feet

D  eyes and ears

A  the first true catarrhini

B  the first true primates

C  the first true mammals

D  the first anthropoids

A  driopithecids

B  proconsulids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  adapids

A  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

B  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

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

D  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

A  useful for tracking temperature change

B  live in the world’s oceans

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

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

A  chemical

B  chronometric

C  nonrelative

D  genetic

A  shells

B  stone

C  wood

D  teeth

A  bone, shell and fabric

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  bone, wood, and stone

D  sediment, stone and ceramics

A  carbon 14 dating

B  potassium-argon dating

C  amino acid dating

D  electron spin resonance dating

A  The type specimen of a species

B  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

C  a fossil found in a particular site

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

A  indes fossils

B  carbon 13 and carbon 12

C  isotopes in general

D  carbon 14

A  dendrochronology

B  superposition

C  electron spin resonance

D  thermoluminescence

A  Steno’s law of superposition

B  carbon 14

C  Dendrochronology

D  biostratigraphy

A  Rock

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  mud

D  sand

A  cryptozoology

B  forensic biology

C  taphonomy

D  archaeology

A  Richard Owen

B  William Smith

C  Alfred Wallace

D  Charles Lyell