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Cultural dating can be used to date


A) ceramics.
B) bones and teeth.
C) shells.
D) trilobite evolution.

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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Some of the best information on climate history over the last several million years is based on the study of


A) amino acids.
B) foraminifera.
C) radioisotopes.
D) dendrochronology.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

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An index fossil is


A) a fossil found in a particular site.
B) the ideal specimen of that species to which all later descriptions must refer.
C) a fossil used to categorize a stratigraphic layer.
D) the type specimen of a species.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Studies of temperatures during the Cenozoic era suggest that temperatures have ________ over time.


A) steadily increased
B) steadily decreased
C) fluctuated, sometimes greatly,
D) stayed basically the same

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Which of the following sedimentary environments is MOST likely to destroy bone and thus contain few if any fossils?


A) a limestone cave filling rapidly with sediment in a semiarid region
B) acidic sediment with plenty of groundwater
C) slowly accumulating sediment so bones remain on the surface for a long time
D) rapidly deposited neutral (not acidic or basic) sediment such as in a rift valley

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Most of the early hominin fossils discovered in Africa come from the eastern and southern parts of the continent.Why is this?


A) Hominin groups lived in these areas and nowhere else.
B) Only these areas were conducive to sustaining life.
C) These areas provided better preservation.
D) Many villagers in these areas gather fossils to sell.

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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Paleosols and fauna in the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia show that the earliest hominins lived in ________ settings.


A) wooded
B) unwooded grassland
C) marshy
D) desert

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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How do dating methods support the theory of natural selection and biological evolution?

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Both relative and absolute dating method...

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Paleontologists find a fossil ape with long arms.What type of environment can they infer it inhabited?


A) savanna
B) woodland
C) grassland
D) swamp

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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Differentiate between absolute and relative dating techniques, giving one example of each.

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Relative dating consists of techniques f...

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Taphonomy is the study of


A) human cultural remains.
B) human genetics.
C) the processes that affect an organism's remains after death.
D) the processes that affect a living organism through life.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

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