Exam 3

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  Australopithecus afarensis

B  Ethiopia

C  fully adult female

D  robust australopithecine

A  the position of the foramen magnum

B  shape of the femur

C  the shape of the pelvis

D  the elbow

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  limestone caves

D  mud and siltstone deposits

A  australopithecines

B  fossilized footprints

C  Kenya

D  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

C  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

D  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

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 small brain 

B  small front teeth and large back teeth

C  all of these

D  a sagittal crest

A  Ethiopia

B  Kenya

C  Chad

D  Egypt

A  arch in the foot

B  position of the foramen magnum

C  length of the femur

D  shape of the pelvis

A  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

B  Orrorin tugenensis

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  Paranthropus

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  hunting

B  speech

C  habitual bipedal locomotion

D  tool use

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Proconsul

D  Dryopithecus

A  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Proconsul and Carpolestes

D  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

A  Oligopithecus

B  Aegyptopithecus

C  Parapithecus

D  Apidium

A  apes

B  monkeys

C  humans

D  prosimians

A  gibbon

B  chimpanzee

C  gorilla

D  orangutan

A  China

B  Peru

C  India

D  France

A  lower premolar tooth

B  ankle

C  skull

D  pelvis

A  anthropoid

B  primate

C  New World monkey

D  ape

A  noses and eyes

B  eyes and ears

C  hind limbs and feet

D  hands and feet

A  the first true primates

B  the first anthropoids

C  the first true catarrhini

D  the first true mammals

A  plesiadapiforms

B  adapids

C  proconsulids

D  driopithecids

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

B  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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  genetic

B  chronometric

C  nonrelative

D  chemical

A  shells

B  stone

C  teeth

D  wood

A  shell, ceramics, and wood

B  sediment, stone and ceramics

C  bone, wood, and stone

D  bone, shell and fabric

A  amino acid dating

B  electron spin resonance dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  carbon 14 dating

A  The type specimen of a species

B  a fossil found in a particular site

C  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

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

A  indes fossils

B  carbon 14

C  isotopes in general

D  carbon 13 and carbon 12

A  thermoluminescence

B  electron spin resonance

C  dendrochronology

D  superposition

A  carbon 14

B  biostratigraphy

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  Dendrochronology

A  mud

B  sand

C  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

D  Rock

A  cryptozoology

B  archaeology

C  taphonomy

D  forensic biology

A  Charles Lyell

B  Richard Owen

C  William Smith

D  Alfred Wallace