Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

A  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

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

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

D  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

A  fully adult female

B  robust australopithecine

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  Ethiopia

A  the position of the foramen magnum

B  the elbow

C  the shape of the pelvis

D  shape of the femur

A  mud and siltstone deposits

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  lava flows/basalt layers

D  limestone caves

A  australopithecines

B  fossilized footprints

C  Kenya

D  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

A  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

B  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

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

B  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

C  the fossils were discovered in England

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

A  a small brain 

B  small front teeth and large back teeth

C  all of these

D  a sagittal crest

A  Egypt

B  Ethiopia

C  Kenya

D  Chad

A  position of the foramen magnum

B  arch in the foot

C  shape of the pelvis

D  length of the femur

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  Orrorin tugenensis

C  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

D  Paranthropus

A  able to climb more efficiently

B  able to run faster

C  able to sleep more easily

D  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

A  hunting

B  tool use

C  speech

D  habitual bipedal locomotion

A  Apidium

B  Dryopithecus

C  Proconsul

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

B  Proconsul and Carpolestes

C  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

D  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

A  Apidium

B  Oligopithecus

C  Parapithecus

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  apes

B  humans

C  monkeys

D  prosimians

A  gibbon

B  gorilla

C  chimpanzee

D  orangutan

A  France

B  China

C  Peru

D  India

A  lower premolar tooth

B  ankle

C  skull

D  pelvis

A  New World monkey

B  anthropoid

C  ape

D  primate

A  hind limbs and feet

B  hands and feet

C  noses and eyes

D  eyes and ears

A  the first anthropoids

B  the first true mammals

C  the first true catarrhini

D  the first true primates

A  adapids

B  proconsulids

C  driopithecids

D  plesiadapiforms

A  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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

C  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

D  grasping hands, tails and 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  nonrelative

B  chemical

C  chronometric

D  genetic

A  shells

B  stone

C  wood

D  teeth

A  bone, wood, and stone

B  shell, ceramics, and wood

C  bone, shell and fabric

D  sediment, stone and ceramics

A  potassium-argon dating

B  electron spin resonance dating

C  amino acid dating

D  carbon 14 dating

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

B  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

C  The type specimen of a species

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  carbon 13 and carbon 12

B  indes fossils

C  isotopes in general

D  carbon 14

A  dendrochronology

B  electron spin resonance

C  thermoluminescence

D  superposition

A  biostratigraphy

B  carbon 14

C  Dendrochronology

D  Steno’s law of superposition

A  mud

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  Rock

D  sand

A  taphonomy

B  cryptozoology

C  forensic biology

D  archaeology

A  Charles Lyell

B  Richard Owen

C  William Smith

D  Alfred Wallace