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Midterm 1 Flashcards

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The signs of the Oligocene Epoch were…?

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glacial cooling and pack ice in Antartica

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The first signs of the oligocene epoch occurred around what time?

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35 MYA

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Since 800,000 YAG there have been intense cycles every ____ years.

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90,000

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When did ice sheets start to cover the northern continents?

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3.2 mya

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Occilations in ice occur how many years apart?

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20,000-40,000 years apart

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How many major glacial periods have there been?

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9

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In order to be classified in the kingdom Animalia you must have/do…?

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Ingest nutrients, Move about, Nervous system, Move about

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An animal that has a spinal chord is classified as a…?

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Phyla-chordata

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An animal that has a spinal chord encased in bone is called a…?

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sub-phylum- vertebrata

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Mammalia must have what?

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constant body temp, hair, live births, mammary glands, large complex brains

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What makes us human (5 sections)?

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Vision and senses, locomotion, reproduction, intelligence, social systems

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What is unique about our vision?

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Forward facing eyes-color, stereoscopic= depth perception, bony eye sockets

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What is unique about our locomotion?

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2 legs, skeletal structure, flexible limbs and brachiation (we swing our legs), prehensile (grasping) hands and feet, opposable thumb (we are the most accurate), flat finger nail

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What is unique about our reproduction?

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Live usually single births, direct care of young, longest period post natal dependency (21 in America but this is culturally determined)

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What is unique about our intelligence?

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Language, planning, abstract thought- neo cortex area (complex thought), large complex brains

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What is unique about our social life/systems?

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Dominance hierarchy- biggest most healthy one wins, communciation- we have the most complex

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True or false, Bnobos make love not war?

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True

17
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Creation myths account for a cultures what?

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Origins, they create Creation myths to explain where people came from

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Matrilineal means what?

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claim decent from mom

19
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Which culture had female infanticide?

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Yanamoamo

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The Yanamoamo were “created” from what?

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Blood, they believed it was their destiny to shed blood

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Tribes are made up of what?

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Bands

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How many major developments does prehistory have?

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4; 1) Origins and early evolution of Archaic humans; 2) emergence and spread of anatomically modern humans; 3) the beginnings of agriculture and animal domestication; 4) the appearance of literate civilization

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Pleistocene Epoch

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1.8 mya- 11,700 ya, Homo sapiens were actually involved in this one and by the end of it we could be found all over the world

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Holocene follows which epoch?

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Pleistocene Epoch

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When does the ice that accumulated 3.2 MYA found on the North continents intensify?

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2.5 MYA

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The first anatomic human can be found… when?

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40,000 yag

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When was the last glacial period?

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4000 yag- Mrs. Dias

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Westerners see time as being…?

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linear

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At three months old, much like humans, chimps can

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gaze at objects

30
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When a chimp becomes a year old how do they compare to a human child?

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The chimp begins to fall behind

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How are apes similar to us?

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They have coordination, color vision, use tools, herbal medicine (Tanzanea chimps lick rocks that collect mineral supplements, or eat plants to cure upset stomachs), they are social, self-recognition, (bonobos have sex to comfort each other)

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What chimps might be the closet (genetically) to humans?

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Bonobo chimps

33
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Chiefdoms leaders are chosen through what method?

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kinship

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