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Mid Term - 2016 Flashcards

1
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What is the term for the field of science that studies the human fossil record?

A

Paleoanthropology

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2
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What is the scientific name for LUCY?

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Australopithecus aferensis

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What is considered the cradle of mankind is located?

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Africa

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4
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What is the term for the ability to walk upright on two legs?

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Bipedalism

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5
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What is the term for southern ape?

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Australopithecus

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6
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What helped scientists determine if an organism walked on 2 legs?

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The study of the knee joint

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7
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What is the study of ancient life forms?

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Paleontology

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8
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What is using an object as it is?

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Tool use

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9
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What is another term for wise man?

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Homo sapien

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10
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What is the term for purposeful crafting of an object for a specific task?

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Tool making

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11
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What is the term for thinking ahead - living beyond the present?

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Imagination

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12
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What did stone hammers allow our ancestors to get to?

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Marrow

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13
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What is the battle to be best adapted to the environment by changing overtime?

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Evolution

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14
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What is the study of humans?

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Anthropology

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15
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What is another term for modern man?

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Homo sapiens

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16
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What is another term for LUCY?

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Australopithecus aferensis

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17
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What is the term for the first to use tools - handy man?

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Homo habilis

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18
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What is the term for the first to be a good upright walker?

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Homo erectus

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19
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What is the term for the working man?

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Homo Egaster

20
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What is the term for looked most like an ape?

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Australopithecus aferensis

21
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What is the term for lived in middle Europe?

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Homo Neanderthanensis

22
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What is the term for the first to cook food over fire?

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Homo Egaster

23
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What is the term for a stronger and stockier than modern man?

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Homo Neanderthalensis

24
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What is the term for Neanderthal man?

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Homo Neanderthalensis

25
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What separates human’s from all other animals?

A

Intellect

26
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What allowed Homo erectus to move to different regions of the earth?

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Portable tools

27
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How did the change from a forest environment to a grassland change the apes?

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Caused some to live on the ground and become bipedal

28
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What physical characteristic separated the hominids from all other animals?

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Bipedalism

29
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What are some advantages of walking upright?

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Able to see over the grasses

More efficient use of energy

30
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What is a reason Homo Egaster was able to survive the hot environment?

A

Tall and lean body to stay cool

Able to store water

31
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What of the following were factors of increased brain size?

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Eating meat

Environmental changes

32
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What formed when India collided with Asia?

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Himalayan mountains

33
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After the creation of the Himalayan mountains - - how did he climates of Asia and Africa change?

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Africa was drier and Asia was wetter

34
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How did the Homo heidelburgensis take care of their dead and injured?

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Helped the injured and left the dead for scavengers

35
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How did the climate change in the North and South 500,000 years ago?

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Cold in the north and hot in the south

36
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What physical adaptations allowed Neanderthals to live in the northern climates?

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Big nose and stocky body

37
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What was Homo erectus first to make tools out of?

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Bamboo

38
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What is the shape of a pelvis of a hominid?

A

Bowl shaped

39
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Overall the relationship between brain size and intelligence is what?

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The larger the brain the more intelligent

40
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What must happen for evolution to occur?

A

A change in environment

41
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When mountain ranges cause rain to fall on only one side of a mountain and form a dessert on the other we call this what?

A

Rain shadow effect

42
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What would a tough food source affect?

A

Teeth size and shape
Saggital crest
Jaw size

43
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How did toll making change the diet of hominids?

A

Able to get to the bone marrow that other animals could not get to.

44
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Why was fire so important to early hominids?

A

Cooking food
Protection
Forced the hominids to stay in Africa

45
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What is the term for all the species of the human family that have lived since the last common ancestor of ape and man?

A

Hominids

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