Exam 2 Practice Qs II Flashcards
Which are true about the Great Rift Valley?
1) Formed because of Tectonic Movement
2) In E. Africa
3) In Hadar
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What researcher identified the fossils of H. Naledi?
1) E. Dubois
2) F. Weidenreich
3) Lee Berger
3
What researcher identified/examined foot fossils of Early Hominins and their “divergent toes”?
1) P. Tobias
2) F. Weidenreich
3) D. Black
1
What is True about Agyptopithecus?
1) Early Ape ancestor
2) Early Monkey Ancestor
3) Appeared in Oligocene Epoch
2 + 3
What is True about Dryopithecus?
1) Asian species
2) European Species
3) Mid-Miocene Epoch
2 + 3
What was found at the site of Swartkrans?
1) Homo species
2) Gracile Australopiths
3) Paranthropus Species
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What was found at the site of Sterkfontein?
1) Gracile Australopiths
2) Foot Fossils
3) Homo species
2
What was found at the site of Narkotome?
1) Turkana Boy - 1.6 mya
2) H. Dmanisi
3) H. Heidelbergensis
1
What was found at the site of Kabwe?
1) H. Neandertals
2) H. Erectus
3) H. Heidelbergensis
3
What was found at the site of Sangiran?
1) H. Erectus Europe
2) “Java” - 1.6 mya
3) H. Naledi
2
What was found at the site of Atapuercas?
1) H. Erectus - Europe
2) H. Erectus -Tanzania
3) H. Neandertal
1
When was the Abrupt Thermal Maximum?
1) Eocene Epoch
2) Paleocene - Eocene Epoch
3) Late Miocene - Early Pleistocene
2
Where was the Fayum fossil hunting site?
1) Africa
2) Egypt
3) Ethiopia
2
What is True about Aegyptopithecus?
1) Found in Fayum, Egypt
2) Dental formula of 2.1.2.2
3) Appears during the Oligocene Epoch
1 + 3
Dental formula = 2.1.2.3
What is True about Gigantopithecus?
1) Cranium fossil of it found
2) Found in Asia
3) Appears during Oligocene Epoch
2
List the two Superfamilies of Euprimates during the Eocene.
Adapoidea
Omomyopidea
What is True about Proconsul?
1) Appeared early Miocene
2) Lived in Africa
3) Appeared 15-7mya
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What is True of Dryopithecus?
1) Appeared Mid-Miocene
2) Lived in Europe
3) Lived in Asia
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What is True about Dental Apes?
1) Ape-like
2) Monkey-like
3) In Early-Miocene
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Plesiadapiforms went extinct during the Eocene Epoch.
True
False
True
When do Archaic H. Sapien fossils appear?
1) 700 kya
2) 250 kya
3) 300 kya
1
Parallel lines in Dental Microwear indicate what?
1) Tough foods
2) Leaves, grass, meats
3) Nuts bones
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Variety of lines and pits in Dental Microwear indicate what?
1) Soft foods
2) Brittle foods
3) Nuts, seeds, bones
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