Module 2 Test chapt 3 &4

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Module 2: Test (Chapters 3 & 4) Question 1 1 / 1 pts In the history of the earth, extinction is: overall quite rare always the result of environmental catastropes unknown until the evolution of human beings extremely common Question 2 1 / 1 pts In the photosynthesis pathway employed by most grasses, the uptake of the 13C isotope of carbon is: much less than in the pathways used by trees or succulents about the same as in the pathway used by trees about the same as in the pathway used by succulent plants higher than in the pathways used by trees or succulents Question 3 1 / 1 pts

Paleoanthropologist Tim White and his colleagues view Ardipithecus ramidus as representing: the creature at the base of the hominin line a creature that spent an equal amount of time on the ground and in the trees the creature that gave rise to the australopithecines all of the above Question 4 1 / 1 pts The single most important consideration for placing a 4 million-year-old fossil in the hominin family is: how it walked the size of its brain evidence of a significant reliance on culture evidence of the use of fire Question 5 1 / 1 pts The end of the Miocene is marked by the: extinction of the dinosaurs

appearance of the first hominins appearance of the first apes extinction of most of the ape species Question 6 1 / 1 pts The most significant behavioral distinction that can be made between Homo habilis and the australopithecines is the former’s: bipedal locomotion controlled use of fire use of the wheel reliance on stone tools Question 7 1 / 1 pts In their analysis of the biomechanics of human locomotion, Dennis Bramble and Daniel Lieberman show that human beings are very well adapted for: tree climbing walking long-distance running

trucking Question 8 1 / 1 pts The australopithecines are placed in the taxonomic family Homininae because they: had large brains made and used tools hunted walked upright Question 9 1 / 1 pts We know that flakes produced in core reduction in the Oldowan technology were used to cut and scrape, as a result of: trace element analysis paleopathology thermoluminescence wear pattern analysis Question 10

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