Cp Bio 2 Final Exam Review 2 (Spring 2014)
- 1.The ancient bipedal hominid called "Taung Child" is a member of which species?
- A.
Australopithecus aferensis
- B.
Australopithecus africanus
- C.
Homo sapiens
- D.
Homo erectus
- 2.The ancient bipedal hominid called "Lucy" is a member of which species?
- A.
Australopithecus aferensis
- B.
Australopithecus africanus
- C.
Homo sapiens
- D.
Homo erectus
- 3.The ancient bipedal hominid called "Handy Man" is a member of which species?
- A.
Homo neanderthalensis
- B.
Homo habilis
- C.
Homo sapiens
- D.
Homo erectus
- 4.Modern humans are members of which species?
- A.
Homo neanderthalensis
- B.
Homo habilis
- C.
Homo sapiens
- D.
Homo erectus
- 5.Which of the following is not a monkey?
- A.
Homo sapiens
- B.
Baboon
- C.
Lemur
- D.
Tarsier
- 6.The oldest living primate group are the ___.
- A.
Prosimians
- B.
Old world monkeys
- C.
Hominids
- D.
Gorillas
- 7.Which of the following is not a characteristic of hominids?
- A.
Prehensile tails
- B.
Walking upright
- C.
Opposable thumbs
- D.
Large brains
- 8.What is the only hominid to co-exist with Homo sapiens in Europe?
- A.
Homo erectus
- B.
Homo neanderthalensis
- C.
Homo habilis
- D.
Homo robustus
- 9.Humans are thought to be descendants of ___.
- A.
Homo erectus
- B.
Homo neanderthalensis
- C.
Homo habilis
- D.
Paranthropus boisei
- 10.What two groups are most hominid species classified into?
- A.
Australopithecus and Homo
- B.
Africanus and habilis
- C.
Homo and sapiens
- D.
Australopithecus and Anthropida
- 11.In searching for the origins of humanity, what characteristic did scientists identify as the first step in human evolution?
- A.
Bipedal locomotion
- B.
Language
- C.
Art and imagination
- D.
Large brain
- 12.Why is it most common to find only the skull of an ancient hominid?
- A.
They only buried the heads of the dead.
- B.
Scavengers can carry off the smaller bones much more easily.
- C.
Skulls tend to look more like rocks.
- D.
Other hominids cannibalize their dead.
- 13.Scientist often take dirt samples from the area around the fossil find. They do this to ....
- A.
Help determine the relative age of the fossil
- B.
Keep the fossil from rotting
- C.
Provide visual context for where the fossil was found
- D.
Provide a keep-sake of the discovery
- 14.To help unravel the mysteries of human evolution, paleoanthropologists use all of the following except ___.
- A.
Fossilized bones
- B.
Endocasts of the brains
- C.
Molecular clocks
- D.
Written historical records
- 15.Which of the following facts supporting evolution would be found in the study of paleontology?
- A.
Embryos of very different organisms have very similar developmental stages.
- B.
A bats wing and a whales flipper have very similar bone structure.
- C.
Large, flightless birds are found on different continents: Australia (Emu), Africa (Ostrich), and Rhea (South America).
- D.
More primative fossils are found below more complex fossils in the rock layers.
- 16.All of the following branches of science provide evidence for evolution EXCEPT ___.
- A.
Biogeography
- B.
Embriology
- C.
Paleontology
- D.
Oncology
- 17.Modern whales have vestigieal pelvic bones and lungs instead of gills. What does this evidence suggest about whale ancestors?
- A.
Whale ancestors lived on land.
- B.
Whale ancestors did not evolve.
- C.
Whale ancestors lived 850 million years ago.
- D.
Whale ancestors ate opossums.
- 18.The wing of an ostrich would be classified as a(n) ___.
- A.
Homologous structure
- B.
Analogous structure
- C.
Vestigial structure
- D.
Fossil structure
- 19.Charles Darwin's poetic grandfather was ___.
- A.
Erasmus Darwin
- B.
Eugene Darwin
- C.
Carolus Linnaeus
- D.
Georges de Buffon
- 20.The process of biological change over time by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors is called ___.
- A.
Evolution
- B.
Artificial selection
- C.
Uniformitarianism
- D.
Mutation
- 21.Charles Darwin found fossils that looked like ancient versions of living species. From this evidence Darwin suggested that Earth was
- A.
Only 6000 years old.
- B.
Only 2000 years old.
- C.
Less than 6000 years old.
- D.
Much more than 6000 years old.
- 22.Which theory states that floods and earthquakes have occurred often in Earth's history?
- A.
Catastrophism
- B.
Uniformitarianism
- C.
Gradualism
- D.
Natural selection
- 23.Which scientist developed a classification system for organisms?
- A.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- B.
Carolus Linnaeus
- C.
Charles Darwin
- D.
Georges de Buffon
- 24.What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive better in its environment?
- A.
Variation
- B.
Adaptation
- C.
Homologous structure
- D.
Vestigial structure
- 25.If an organism has a vestigial structure, that structure likely once had a function in a(n)
- A.
Earlier ancestor.
- B.
Close relative.
- C.
Unrelated organism.
- D.
Embryological stage.
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