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  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

D  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

A  robust australopithecine

B  fully adult female

C  Ethiopia

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  the position of the foramen magnum

B  the shape of the pelvis

C  the elbow

D  shape of the femur

A  lava flows/basalt layers

B  sedimentary sandstone

C  limestone caves

D  mud and siltstone deposits

A  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

B  australopithecines

C  fossilized footprints

D  Kenya

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

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 sagittal crest

B  a small brain 

C  small front teeth and large back teeth

D  all of these

A  Kenya

B  Ethiopia

C  Chad

D  Egypt

A  position of the foramen magnum

B  shape of the pelvis

C  length of the femur

D  arch in the foot

A  Paranthropus

B  Orrorin tugenensis

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

A  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

B  able to run faster

C  able to sleep more easily

D  able to climb more efficiently

A  speech

B  habitual bipedal locomotion

C  tool use

D  hunting

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Dryopithecus

D  Proconsul

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

D  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Apidium

C  Parapithecus

D  Oligopithecus

A  apes

B  monkeys

C  humans

D  prosimians

A  orangutan

B  gorilla

C  gibbon

D  chimpanzee

A  China

B  France

C  Peru

D  India

A  pelvis

B  lower premolar tooth

C  ankle

D  skull

A  New World monkey

B  ape

C  anthropoid

D  primate

A  hind limbs and feet

B  noses and eyes

C  eyes and ears

D  hands and feet

A  the first true mammals

B  the first anthropoids

C  the first true catarrhini

D  the first true primates

A  proconsulids

B  adapids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  driopithecids

A  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

B  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

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

D  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

A  live in the world’s oceans

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  useful for tracking temperature change

A  nonrelative

B  genetic

C  chronometric

D  chemical

A  shells

B  wood

C  stone

D  teeth

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  carbon 14 dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  electron spin resonance dating

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

B  The type specimen of a species

C  a fossil found in a particular site

D  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

A  carbon 13 and carbon 12

B  isotopes in general

C  indes fossils

D  carbon 14

A  thermoluminescence

B  dendrochronology

C  superposition

D  electron spin resonance

A  biostratigraphy

B  carbon 14

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  Dendrochronology

A  Rock

B  mud

C  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

D  sand

A  forensic biology

B  taphonomy

C  archaeology

D  cryptozoology

A  Richard Owen

B  William Smith

C  Alfred Wallace

D  Charles Lyell