Exam 3 – Chapters 12 – 17

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

A  Australopithecus afarensis

B  fully adult female

C  Ethiopia

D  robust australopithecine

A  the shape of the pelvis

B  shape of the femur

C  the elbow

D  the position of the foramen magnum

A  mud and siltstone deposits

B  lava flows/basalt layers

C  limestone caves

D  sedimentary sandstone

A  australopithecines

B  Kenya

C  fossilized footprints

D  radiopotassium/potassium-argon dating

A  Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda

B  Sudan, Kenya, Egypt

C  Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

D  Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt

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

B  the fossils were discovered in England

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

D  fossils were given the scientific name of Eoanthropus dawsonii

A  a sagittal crest

B  small front teeth and large back teeth

C  all of these

D  a small brain 

A  Egypt

B  Kenya

C  Ethiopia

D  Chad

A  arch in the foot

B  length of the femur

C  shape of the pelvis

D  position of the foramen magnum

A  Orrorin tugenensis

B  Sahelanthropus tchadensis

C  Paranthropus

D  Australopithecus afarensis

A  able to see farther distances and more easily transport food

B  able to climb more efficiently

C  able to sleep more easily

D  able to run faster

A  hunting

B  speech

C  tool use

D  habitual bipedal locomotion

A  Aegyptopithecus

B  Proconsul

C  Apidium

D  Dryopithecus

A  Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus

B  Khoratpithecus and Gigantopithecus

C  Proconsul and Carpolestes

D  Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus

A  Oligopithecus

B  Parapithecus

C  Apidium

D  Aegyptopithecus

A  humans

B  monkeys

C  prosimians

D  apes

A  gibbon

B  orangutan

C  gorilla

D  chimpanzee

A  Peru

B  China

C  France

D  India

A  ankle

B  lower premolar tooth

C  skull

D  pelvis

A  anthropoid

B  ape

C  primate

D  New World monkey

A  eyes and ears

B  hands and feet

C  hind limbs and feet

D  noses and eyes

A  the first true catarrhini

B  the first true mammals

C  the first anthropoids

D  the first true primates

A  proconsulids

B  adapids

C  plesiadapiforms

D  driopithecids

A  developed vision, greater sense of smell and tails

B  grasping hands, tails and intelligence

C  grasping hands and feet, developed vision and greater intelligence

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

A  live in the world’s oceans

B  useful for tracking temperature change

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

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

A  genetic

B  nonrelative

C  chemical

D  chronometric

A  teeth

B  stone

C  wood

D  shells

A  bone, shell and fabric

B  bone, wood, and stone

C  shell, ceramics, and wood

D  sediment, stone and ceramics

A  carbon 14 dating

B  amino acid dating

C  potassium-argon dating

D  electron spin resonance dating

A  The type specimen of a species

B  a fossil found in a particular site

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

D  a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer

A  carbon 13 and carbon 12

B  carbon 14

C  isotopes in general

D  indes fossils

A  thermoluminescence

B  electron spin resonance

C  dendrochronology

D  superposition

A  carbon 14

B  Dendrochronology

C  Steno’s law of superposition

D  biostratigraphy

A  acidic soil (as in a jungle)

B  Rock

C  mud

D  sand

A  archaeology

B  taphonomy

C  cryptozoology

D  forensic biology

A  Alfred Wallace

B  Charles Lyell

C  William Smith

D  Richard Owen