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Mid term Exam - 2015 Flashcards

1
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What is 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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2
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What is the study of humans?

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Anthropology

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3
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What is the battle to best best adapted to the environment by changing overtime?

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evolution

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4
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What did stone hammers allow our ancestor to get to?

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Marrow

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5
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What field of science studies the human fossil record?

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paleoanthropology

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6
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What was the scientific name for Lucy?

A

Australopitheus aferensis

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7
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Where is the cradle of mankind located?

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Africa

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8
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What is the ability to walk upright on two legs?

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bipedal

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9
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What is another name for the southern ape?

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Autralopitheas

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10
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What is thinking ahead and living beyond the present?

A

imagination

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11
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What is the purposeful crafting of an object for a specific task?

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Tool making

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12
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What is the term for wise man?

A

Homo sapian

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13
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What is the term for using an object as it is?

A

Tool use

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14
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What is the study of ancient life forms?

A

Paleontology

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15
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What joints helped scientists determine if an organism walked on 2 legs?

A

Knee

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16
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What is the term for modern man?

A

Homo sapiens

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17
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What is the term for Neanderthal man?

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Homo Neanderthalensis

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18
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What is the term for stronger and stockier than modern man?

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Homo Neanderthalensis

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19
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What is the term for first to cook food over fire?

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Homo ergaster

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20
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What is the term known as Lucy?

A

Australopithecus aferensis

21
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What is the term for first to be a good upright walker?

A

Homo habilis

22
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What is the term for the first to use tools - handy man?

A

Homo erectus

23
Q

What is term for the working man?

A

Homo ergaster

24
Q

What is the term for looked most like an ape?

A

Australopithecus Aferensis

25
Q

What is the term for lived in middle Europe?

A

Homo Neanderthalensis

26
Q

What separates humans from all other animals?

A

intellect

27
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What allowed Homo Erectus to move to different regions of the earth?

A

Portable tools

28
Q

How did the change form a forest environment to a grassland change the apes?

A

caused some to live on the ground and become bipedal

29
Q

What physical characteristic separated the hominids from all other animals?

A

Bipedalism

30
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What are advantages of walking upright?

A

able to see over grasses

more efficient use of energy

31
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What are the reasons Homo Ergaster was able to survive the hot environment?

A

Tall and lean body to stay cool

able to store water

32
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What are factors of an increased brain size?

A

Eating meat

environmental changes

33
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What formed when India collided with Asia?

A

Himalayan mountains

34
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How did the climates of Asia and Africa change after the creation of the Himalayan mountains?

A

Africa was drier and Asia was wetter

35
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How did the Homo heidelburgensis take car of their dead and injured?

A

helped the injured and left the dead for scavengers

36
Q

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

A

Hot in the north and cold in the south

37
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What physical adaptations allowed Neanderthal to live in the northern climate?

A

Big nose and stocky body

38
Q

What was Homo erectus first to make tolls out of?

A

bamboo

39
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What is the shape of a pelvis of a hominid?

A

Bowl shape

40
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What was the overall relationship between brain size and intelligence?

A

larger brain - - less intelligence

41
Q

If _____ does not change evolution can not occur.

A

environment

42
Q

When mountain ranges cause rain to fall on only one side of a mountain and form a desert on the other - it is called?

A

Rain shadow effect

43
Q

What would a tough food source affect?

A

Brain size

44
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How did tool making change the diet of hominids?

A

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

45
Q

Why was fir important to early hominids?

A

Because it allowed for:
Protection
Forced the hominids to stay in Africa
Cooking Food

46
Q

Be able to look at a chromosome and label the Q arm, Centromere, P arm?

A

See Mrs. Krumpelman

47
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What chromosome number is affected when an individual has down syndrome?

A

21

48
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An inversion that contains the centromere and has break points in both arms of the chromosome is know as what?

A

Pericentric conversion

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