front 1 Anthropology is | back 1 the study of human mankind everywhere, throughout time |
front 2 Although human beings always have been interested in other human beings, anthropology has emerged as a tradition of scientific inquiry over the last | back 2 150 years |
front 3 What are the traditional fields or subdisiplnes of anthropology? | back 3 Cultural Anthropology
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front 4 The Garbage Project in Tucson demonstrated that what people say and what they do can differ dramatically. For instance, investigators found that | back 4 the amount of beer consumed, according to empty cans in the trash, was far higher than people claimed |
front 5 Historians, who usually study the past through written sources, are limited chronologically to | back 5 the past 5,000 years |
front 6 Which of the following research projects would NOT belong to the province of linguistic anthropology? | back 6 reconstructing the evolution of the big toe to find out at what time humans began to walk upright |
front 7 In-depth descriptive studies of specific cultures are called? | back 7 ethnographies |
front 8 A(n) _____ is a closely examined and critically checked out explanation of observed reality | back 8 theory |
front 9 Franz Boaz did his first ethnographic research among the | back 9 Inuit |
front 10 Which of the following services is NOT one that forensic anthropologists routinely are called upon by the police and other authorities to identify? | back 10 potential archaeological sites |
front 11 The term that refers to worldwide interconnectedness, signified by global movements of natural resources, trade goods, human labor, finance capital, information, and infectious diseases is known as | back 11 globalization |
front 12 What is "transplant tourism?" | back 12 travel connected with the buying and selling of human organs |
front 13 Reconstructing the evolution of the big toes to determine at what time humans began to walk would be a research project for which of the following type of anthropologists? | back 13 physical |
front 14 The hand of a human and wing of a bat are _____ structures, while the wings of birds and butterflies are _____ structures. | back 14 homologous, analogous |
front 15 Generation after generation, the bullfrogs in a farm pond look much alike, have the same cells, and exhibit the same behavior when breeding. The _____ of the population appears to remain stable over time. | back 15 Gene Pool |
front 16 Ultimately, all natural selection is measured in terms of | back 16 reproductive success |
front 17 A chance creation of a new allele is called a | back 17 mutation |
front 18 The last 500 years have seen the introduction of Spanish and African alleles into Central and South American populations from Spanish colonists and African slaves. The change in the gene pool is caused by | back 18 gene flow |
front 19 The process by which a population becomes better adapted to its biological and social environment is | back 19 adaption |
front 20 A ______ is a population or group of populations capable of interbreeding that is reproductively isolated from other such populations | back 20 species |
front 21 Who proposed a "flower clock" that could show the time of day according to whether blossoms of particular species were open or shut | back 21 Carolus Linneaus |
front 22 Among primates, humans are least related to which of the following? | back 22 monkeys |
front 23 A structure unique to lemurs is | back 23 a dental comb made up of the lower incisors and canines that projects forward from the jaw |
front 24 Primates are mammals. Evidence from ancient skeletons indicates the first mammals appeared over ______ million years ago. | back 24 200 |
front 25 Among many species, males possess larger canine teeth than females. This is an example of sexual | back 25 dimorphism |
front 26 Nearly _____ percent of the known primate species and subspecies face extinction in the next decade | back 26 50 |
front 27 Which of the following have no tails? | back 27 Apes |
front 28 Which of the following primates have been observed hunting, killing and eating colubus guereza monkey? | back 28 chimpanzees |
front 29 Baboons feed on a diet of | back 29 grass, leaves, insects |
front 30 The _____ is the large opening at the base of the skill through which the spinal cord passes and is an important clue to evolutionary relationships | back 30 foramen magnum |
front 31 As mentioned in your textbook, the skin around the genitals of the _____ female is constantly swollen, concealing the time of ovulation by looking and behaving as if they are always fertile. | back 31 Bonobo |
front 32 The violence among chimpanzee groups witnessed by primatologist Jane Goodall is thought to have been the consequence of | back 32 crowding brought about by human encroachment |
front 33 If you were to visit a primate group in the wild, the most frequent type of activity that you would be likely to see is | back 33 grooming |
front 34 An important method of learning among infants and juveniles is | back 34 play |
front 35 The way chimpanzees in West Africa crack open oil-palm nuts requires observation and practice. After a great deal of practice, they are proficient by the age of | back 35 6 or 7 |
front 36 The hardened, nerveless buttock pads that allow baboons to sit for long periods of time are called | back 36 ischial callosities |
front 37 It is clear that all of the great ape species can develop language skills to the level of a ____ year old human child | back 37 2-3 |
front 38 Those physical anthropologists engaged in the recovery and study of fossil evidence for human evolution are known as | back 38 paleoanthropologists |
front 39 In the case of fossils, the block in which they have been removed from the field is cut open, and the fossil is separated from the matrix. Which of the following chemicals would be used in this process? | back 39 hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids |
front 40 With accurate and detailed records of their excavations in hand, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists are able to deal with a plausible reconstruction of | back 40 culture |
front 41 For the archaeologists, according to the original study "Whispers from the Ice," having elders stand beside them and identifying items and providing _____ is like hearing the past whispering in their ears. | back 41 historical context |
front 42 Which of the following conditions is most favorable to the preservation of fossils? | back 42 burial in volcanic ash |
front 43 What is a "relative date" | back 43 Would be represented by the statement, " Fossil A has more fluorine in it than Fossil B, so it is the older one." |
front 44 You as your best friend's mother how old she is. She replies, "I'm younger that your mother." You were asking for a(n) _____ date, but she gave you a(n) ______ date. | back 44 absolute, relative |
front 45 You are investigating an archaeological site in which there are several clearly distinguishable layers of earth laid down. You find a piece of finely glazed china in the fifth (lowest) layer and a piece of unglazed pottery in the first (highest) layer. You assume that the unglazed pottery was made more recently that the finely glazed pottery. In making such an assumption you are using the method of | back 45 stratigraphy |
front 46 You are a paleoanthropologist uncovering fossils in East Africa. Using a certain technique, you discover that humanlike fossil is in a stratum between a volcanic eruption dated at 2.9 million years and another volcanic eruption whose rocks give a date of 3.6 million years. The fossil is about midway between these layers, so you assign a tentative date of 3.2-3.3 million years to your fossil. What technique are you using? | back 46 potassium-argon analysis |
front 47 The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed in | back 47 1990 |
front 48 What are garbage disposal areas in an archaeological sites called? | back 48 Middens |