Exam 2 Practice Qs II

Question 1

Which are true about the Great Rift Valley?

1) Formed because of Tectonic Movement
2) In E. Africa
3) In Hadar

Answer 1

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Question 2

What researcher identified the fossils of H. Naledi?

1) E. Dubois
2) F. Weidenreich
3) Lee Berger

Answer 2

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Question 3

What researcher identified/examined foot fossils of Early Hominins and their “divergent toes”?

1) P. Tobias
2) F. Weidenreich
3) D. Black

Answer 3

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Question 4

What is True about Agyptopithecus?

1) Early Ape ancestor
2) Early Monkey Ancestor
3) Appeared in Oligocene Epoch

Answer 4

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Question 5

What is True about Dryopithecus?

1) Asian species
2) European Species
3) Mid-Miocene Epoch

Answer 5

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Question 6

What was found at the site of Swartkrans?

1) Homo species
2) Gracile Australopiths
3) Paranthropus Species

Answer 6

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Question 7

What was found at the site of Sterkfontein?

1) Gracile Australopiths
2) Foot Fossils
3) Homo species

Answer 7

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Question 8

What was found at the site of Narkotome?

1) Turkana Boy - 1.6 mya
2) H. Dmanisi
3) H. Heidelbergensis

Answer 8

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Question 9

What was found at the site of Kabwe?

1) H. Neandertals
2) H. Erectus
3) H. Heidelbergensis

Answer 9

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Question 10

What was found at the site of Sangiran?

1) H. Erectus Europe
2) “Java” - 1.6 mya
3) H. Naledi

Answer 10

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Question 11

What was found at the site of Atapuercas?

1) H. Erectus - Europe
2) H. Erectus -Tanzania
3) H. Neandertal

Answer 11

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Question 12

When was the Abrupt Thermal Maximum?

1) Eocene Epoch
2) Paleocene - Eocene Epoch
3) Late Miocene - Early Pleistocene

Answer 12

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Question 13

Where was the Fayum fossil hunting site?

1) Africa
2) Egypt
3) Ethiopia

Answer 13

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Question 14

What is True about Aegyptopithecus?

1) Found in Fayum, Egypt
2) Dental formula of 2.1.2.2
3) Appears during the Oligocene Epoch

Answer 14

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Dental formula = 2.1.2.3

Question 15

What is True about Gigantopithecus?

1) Cranium fossil of it found
2) Found in Asia
3) Appears during Oligocene Epoch

Answer 15

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Question 16

List the two Superfamilies of Euprimates during the Eocene.

Answer 16

Adapoidea
Omomyopidea

Question 17

What is True about Proconsul?

1) Appeared early Miocene
2) Lived in Africa
3) Appeared 15-7mya

Answer 17

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Question 18

What is True of Dryopithecus?

1) Appeared Mid-Miocene
2) Lived in Europe
3) Lived in Asia

Answer 18

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Question 19

What is True about Dental Apes?

1) Ape-like
2) Monkey-like
3) In Early-Miocene

Answer 19

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Question 20

Plesiadapiforms went extinct during the Eocene Epoch.

True
False

Answer 20

True

Question 21

When do Archaic H. Sapien fossils appear?

1) 700 kya
2) 250 kya
3) 300 kya

Answer 21

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Question 22

Parallel lines in Dental Microwear indicate what?

1) Tough foods
2) Leaves, grass, meats
3) Nuts bones

Answer 22

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Question 23

Variety of lines and pits in Dental Microwear indicate what?

1) Soft foods
2) Brittle foods
3) Nuts, seeds, bones

Answer 23

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