Ch. 1 Questions

Question 1

Current knowledge of the earth and life on earth states

Answer 1

The earth and life on earth are billions of years old

Question 2

Is Evolution a fact, a theory, or a hypothesis?

Answer 2

Evolution is a theory because it works to explain observed phenomena

Question 3

The Hutterites were originally from

Answer 3

Europe

Question 4

The exhumation of Henry Opukaha’ia is an example of what type of anthropology?

Answer 4

Applied anthropology

Question 5

What was Dr. Park’s main objective in studying the Hutterites?

Answer 5

To study gene flow and genetic drift

Question 6

What made the Hutterites ideal for the author’s study?

Answer 6

They were individual populations that resulted from the splitting of earlier populations

Question 7

The anthropological approach of examining a subject by focusing on the interrelationships among its parts is called

Answer 7

Holistic

Question 8

A subfield of anthropology that focuses on human cultural and behavioral systems and the variation in cultural expression among human groups is

Answer 8

Cultural anthropology

Question 9

Biological anthropology is

Answer 9

A subfield of anthropology that studies humans as a biological species

Question 10

Educated guesses to explain natural phenomena best describes the term

Answer 10

Hypothesis

Question 11

Cultural knowledge and behavior

Answer 11

Is learned

Question 12

Anthropology seeks to describe and explain the interactions between our nature as a biological species and the cultural behavior that is our species’ most striking and important trait. This is the definition of

Answer 12

Biocultural anthropology

Question 13

Science is

Answer 13

A method of inquiry

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a step in the scientific method?

Answer 14

Eliminating all preconceptions

Question 15

Good science is

Answer 15

Skeptical

Question 16

An idea that is taken on faith and cannot be scientifically tested is a

Answer 16

Belief

Question 17

Fieldwork is where anthropologists make their observations and collect their data.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Henry Opukaha’ia was a Hawaiian kidnapped and sold into slavery in Connecticut

Answer 18

False

Question 19

Hypotheses are proven scientific facts.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

The author discovered the Hutterites through a library search on religiously isolated groups.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Anthropologists study the human species as any zoologist would study an animal species.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Cultural behavior is programmed into our genes.

Answer 22

False

Question 23

A symbol is an agreed-upon representation of concepts and abstractions

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Many anthropologists study things that cannot be directly observed in nature or re-created in the lab because they happened in the past but in spite of that they are still scientific.

Answer 24

True