Exam 3

A  nonhoning chewing, primitive apelike traits, increased brain size

B  modified honing chewing, primitive apelike traits and small brain

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

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

A  Ethiopia

B  fully adult female

C  Australopithecus afarensis

D  robust australopithecine

A  the shape of the pelvis

B  the elbow

C  shape of the femur

D  the position of the foramen magnum

A  limestone caves

B  lava flows/basalt layers

C  sedimentary sandstone

D  mud and siltstone deposits

A  Kenya

B  australopithecines

C  fossilized footprints

D  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

A  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

B  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

A  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

B  the fossils were discovered in England

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

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

A  all of these

B  a small brain 

C  a sagittal crest

D  small front teeth and large back teeth

A  Ethiopia

B  Chad

C  Egypt

D  Kenya

A  length of the femur

B  shape of the pelvis

C  arch in the foot

D  position of the foramen magnum

A  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

B  Australopithecus afarensis

C  Paranthropus

D  Orrorin tugenensis

A  able to run faster

B  able to climb more efficiently

C  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

D  able to sleep more easily

A  tool use

B  hunting

C  speech

D  habitual bipedal locomotion

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Proconsul

C  Apidium

D  Dryopithecus

A  Proconsul and Carpolestes

B  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

C  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Apidium

B  Oligopithecus

C  Parapithecus

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  prosimians

B  apes

C  monkeys

D  humans

A  gorilla

B  chimpanzee

C  orangutan

D  gibbon

A  France

B  China

C  India

D  Peru

A  pelvis

B  ankle

C  skull

D  lower premolar tooth

A  anthropoid

B  New World monkey

C  ape

D  primate

A  eyes and ears

B  hands and feet

C  hind limbs and feet

D  noses and eyes

A  the first true mammals

B  the first true primates

C  the first anthropoids

D  the first true catarrhini

A  plesiadapiforms

B  proconsulids

C  driopithecids

D  adapids

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

B  useful for tracking temperature change

C  live in the world’s oceans

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

A  chronometric

B  nonrelative

C  chemical

D  genetic

A  stone

B  wood

C  teeth

D  shells

A  shell, ceramics, and wood

B  bone, wood, and stone

C  sediment, stone and ceramics

D  bone, shell and fabric

A  electron spin resonance dating

B  carbon 14 dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  amino acid dating

A  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

B  The type specimen of a species

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

D  a fossil found in a particular site

A  carbon 14

B  carbon 13 and carbon 12

C  indes fossils

D  isotopes in general

A  superposition

B  thermoluminescence

C  electron spin resonance

D  dendrochronology

A  biostratigraphy

B  Dendrochronology

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  carbon 14

A  mud

B  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

C  sand

D  Rock

A  cryptozoology

B  forensic biology

C  archaeology

D  taphonomy

A  Charles Lyell

B  Richard Owen

C  William Smith

D  Alfred Wallace