Bio quiz 14.1-2

Question 1

one’s philosophy

Answer 1

worldview

Question 2

credited for the acceptance of evolution

Answer 2

Charles Darwin

Question 3

formulated the doctrine of uniformitarianism

Answer 3

Charles Lyell

Question 4

the idea that the present is the only key to the past and that all things continue by natural processes at the same rates as they always have

Answer 4

uniformitarianism

Question 5

idea that man came from a common ancestor

Answer 5

evolution

Question 6

1. what boat did Darwin travel on?
2. what were his books?

Answer 6

1. Beagle
2. On the Origin of Species/the Descent of Man

Question 7

idea that the fittest and strongest members of each species were more likely to survive and reproduce than weaker, poorly adapted members

Answer 7

natural selection

Question 8

“science” seeking to improve the human species by selective breeding humans to produce a “master race”

Answer 8

eugenics

Question 9

changes within a particular kind of organism, referring to variations in the gene pool within a population

Answer 9

speciation (microevolution)

Question 10

hypothetical process by which the new kinds of creatures emerge from existing kinds over time

Answer 10

macroevolution

Question 11

remains or impressions of plants, animals, and humans preserved in sedimentary rock

Answer 11

fossils

Question 12

study of fossils

Answer 12

paleontology

Question 13

hypothetical fossils that connect one kind of organism with another kind by a series of tiny steps

Answer 13

transitional forms

Question 14

idea that there are long periods of no evolution and then quick periods of evolution and this process occurring several times

Answer 14

punctuated equilibrium hypothesis

Question 15

Hypothetical arrangement of fossils and rocks

Answer 15

geologic column

Question 16

identify the layers of the geologic column by their presence

Answer 16

index fossils

Question 17

the logical fallacy of basing an argument on the very premise it attempts to prove

Answer 17

circular reasoning

Question 18

lends credence to the ancient dates used in the geologic column

Answer 18

radiometric dating

Question 19

contradicts the facts of the fossil record and the hypothesis of evolution

Answer 19

Cambrian explosion

Question 20

fish that had been taught to be a transitional form

Answer 20

coelacanth

Question 21

weird bird presented as an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and modern birds

Answer 21

Archaeopteryx

Question 22

considered a missing link but was actually a bunch of bones from around the world put together and claimed to be a horse ancestor

Answer 22

horse series

Question 23

most important difference between man and apes

Answer 23

man is created in the image of God

Question 24

human-like skull and ape-like jaw were put together and used as proof that man was used as “proof”; was a hoax

Answer 24

Piltdown man

Question 25

used a pig tooth to explain evolution, was a mistake

Answer 25

Nebraska man

Question 26

100% ape, specifically an orangutan

Answer 26

ramapithecus

Question 27

man's ancestor that was associated with the Taung child

Answer 27

Australopithecus africanus

Question 28

"East Africa man" ape

Answer 28

australopithecus boisei

Question 29

man's ancestor associated with Lucy

Answer 29

australopithecus afarensis

Question 30

mix of fossils that is a mixture of human and ape

Answer 30

homo habilis "handy man"

Question 31

homo erectus two main examples

Answer 31

Java man and Peking man (real men)

Question 32

upright man

Answer 32

homo erectus

Question 33

found in a German valley that is considered better humans

Answer 33

Neanderthal man

Question 34

cave in France; identical to modern humans

Answer 34

Cro-Magnon man