Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

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

B  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

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

D  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

A  robust australopithecine

B  fully adult female

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  Ethiopia

A  the shape of the pelvis

B  the elbow

C  shape of the femur

D  the position of the foramen magnum

A  mud and siltstone deposits

B  limestone caves

C  lava flows/basalt layers

D  sedimentary sandstone

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  discovery of the Taung child begins to discredit the Piltdown fossils

B  the fossils were discovered in England

C  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

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

A  small front teeth and large back teeth

B  a small brain 

C  all of these

D  a sagittal crest

A  Kenya

B  Ethiopia

C  Egypt

D  Chad

A  arch in the foot

B  length of the femur

C  position of the foramen magnum

D  shape of the pelvis

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Paranthropus

C  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  able to sleep more easily

B  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

C  able to run faster

D  able to climb more efficiently

A  habitual bipedal locomotion

B  hunting

C  tool use

D  speech

A  Dryopithecus

B  Proconsul

C  Apidium

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

B  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

C  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

D  Proconsul and Carpolestes

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Parapithecus

D  Oligopithecus

A  monkeys

B  apes

C  humans

D  prosimians

A  orangutan

B  gibbon

C  gorilla

D  chimpanzee

A  India

B  Peru

C  France

D  China

A  ankle

B  lower premolar tooth

C  pelvis

D  skull

A  New World monkey

B  ape

C  anthropoid

D  primate

A  hind limbs and feet

B  hands and feet

C  noses and eyes

D  eyes and ears

A  the first true primates

B  the first anthropoids

C  the first true mammals

D  the first true catarrhini

A  proconsulids

B  driopithecids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  adapids

A  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

B  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

C  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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

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

D  useful for tracking temperature change

A  nonrelative

B  genetic

C  chronometric

D  chemical

A  shells

B  stone

C  wood

D  teeth

A  shell, ceramics, and wood

B  bone, shell and fabric

C  bone, wood, and stone

D  sediment, stone and ceramics

A  amino acid dating

B  electron spin resonance dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  carbon 14 dating

A  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

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

C  The type specimen of a species

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  isotopes in general

B  carbon 14

C  indes fossils

D  carbon 13 and carbon 12

A  electron spin resonance

B  thermoluminescence

C  dendrochronology

D  superposition

A  Steno’s law of superposition

B  biostratigraphy

C  Dendrochronology

D  carbon 14

A  sand

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  Rock

D  mud

A  archaeology

B  taphonomy

C  cryptozoology

D  forensic biology

A  Charles Lyell

B  Richard Owen

C  Alfred Wallace

D  William Smith