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The principle of faunal succession was created by
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William Smith
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The study of what happens to the remains of an organism is called
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taphonomy |
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Rapid evolutionary change during long, static periods is known as
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punctuated equilibrium
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Before the formation of the seven continents of the world, there was a supercontinent called
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Pangaea
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According to Bishop Ussher, when was Earth created?
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6,000 years ago
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The law of superposition created by Nicolaus Steno helped lay the foundations for
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relative dating
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All of the following are relative methods of dating EXCEPT
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radiocarbon dating
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All of the following are absolute methods of dating EXCEPT
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cultural dating |
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Which of the following elements can be used in radiometric dating
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All of these are correct
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To calculate the numerical age of a fossil specimen that you believe dates to about 2 mya, which of the following methods would you choose?
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fission-track dating
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Your professor is planning to undertake chemical isotope analysis for her latest paleoanthropology project. When you ask her for more details, she invites you to guess the topic of her project based on this fact alone. You suggest that her project may be about
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Any of these are correct.
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A volcanic eruption on the coast of Japan in 1850 deposits a layer of ash on top of a layer of red clay, and the ash is covered by a layer of silt in a tsunami in 1902. Archaeologists find a coin between the ash and silt, and they find a small pot between the ash and clay. Given this sequence of events, which of the following is true?
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The pot is older than the coin
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5,730 years is the ______________ of the carbon-14 radioisotope
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half-life
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The molecular clock indicates that humans and chimpanzees diverged about ____ mya
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9
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You want to undertake a project to study the past environment in which the Inuit lived in Greenland. Your professor suggests that you think about climate, specifically that you
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test microorganisms in the ocean to estimate temperature fluctuations.
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While studying for your physical anthropology midterm, your classmate tells you that the bones of Lucy, a famous australopithecine specimen that dates to about 3.2 million years ago, were dated based on carbon-14 analysis. You note that this is incorrect because
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All of these are correct.
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The era in which we are living is the
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Cenozoic
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A team of paleoanthropologists has concluded based on skeletal anatomy that the new species they found, Oreopithecus, lived in an arboreal habitat. This conclusion may have been based largely on the apes’
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long arm bones
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For fossilization to occur, bones should meet the following taphonomic requirement(s).
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The bones must remain in an anoxic environment
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Fossils are most commonly found in
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sedimentary rock
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According to this geologic timescale, which epoch immediately preceded the current one?
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Pleistocene
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The object seen here can be used
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All of these are correct
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The objects seen here can provide a(n) _________ date for an archaeological site
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relative
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This is a typical C4 plant, associated with open grasslands
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True
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This graphic represents Steno’s law of superposition
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True
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