Anthropology Final

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list four major sub-fields of Anthropology

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CLAP

Cultural
Linguistic
Archeology
Physical

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Anthropology is the study of

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Culture and its effects on humans

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The view that cultural traditions must be understood within the context of a particular society's solutions to problems and opportunities is referred to as

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Cultural relativism

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The study of language is called

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linguistics

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A _______ is something which all societies do

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Universal

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Archaeology is the study of

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artifacts

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________ a change in the genotype of an individual through the alteration of the chromosomes or DNA

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Mutation

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Biological anthropology is the study of the relationship between _______ and the _____ ______

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Culture and the Human Body

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True or False - Evolution is a scientific law

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False

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True of False - Members of the same species can produce viable offspring

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True

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List two forms of Absolute Dating methods

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ascribed, thermoluminescence

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______ is the exchange of alleles between populations as a result of interbreeding

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Gene flow

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Culture is easiest described as

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The study of human behavior

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True or False - species with very generalized traits cannot handle a wide range of different environmental conditions

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False

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Thermoluminescence can be used to date wooden artifacts

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False

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________ is the process of using tree rings to determine the age of a piece of wood

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Dendrochronology

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_______ is not an artifact
a. a pencil
b. the superdome
c. a freshly picked ear of corn
d. Hurricane katrina
e. A 3000 year old piece of pottery

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Hurricane katrina

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__________ is the evolutionary process resulting from the natural environment acting on traits within a species

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Natural selection

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Culture is
a. learned
b. shared
c. patterned
d. mutable
e. all of the above

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All of the above

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The law of supraposition:
Label the each row 1 to 5 with 5 being the oldest
_________
__________
_________
_________
__________

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1
2
3
4
5

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Cultural anthropology, a sub field of anthopology, is the study of

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contemporary living societies

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A scientific law is always
a. replicable
b. logical
c. predictable
d. mathematically expressible
e. none of the above
f. all of the above

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F. all of the above

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Medical anthropology is a combination of which subfields?
a. cultural anthropology
b. archaeology
c. restology
d. physical anthropology
e. linguistics
f. both A and D
g. both D and C
h. both A and B
i. Both C and B

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Both A and D

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List four cultural universals

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dancing
singing
weaving
cooking

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True of false - absolute dates are used to date one event at one point in time

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True

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Physical variations between human populations is caused by

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evolution
* ask dr. mann

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True or false - Race is a concept based in culture, not biology

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True

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Generalized species are less susceptible to rapid ________ than more specialized species

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Extinction

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True of False - Modern Humans are not Hominoids

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False

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In chimpanzee communities, social bonds are strongest between

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Mother and child

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The ______ is the large bone found between the lowest lumbar vertebrae and pelvic bone

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Sacrum

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Humans have an extended period of

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gestation

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True or false - biological anthropology and physical anthropology are not different fields of anthropology

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True

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Which is not a primate?
Chimpanzees
Humans
Gibbons
Gorillas
None of the above

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None of the above

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Biological Anthropology is the study of the relationship between ______ and the _____ _______

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Culture and the Human Body

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Which is genetically most similar to humans?
Gibbons
Bonostiads
Chimpanzees
Gorillas
Bonobos

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Bonobos

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List the four types of primate locomotion

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Brachiation
Quadrapedalism
Knuckle-walking
Bipedalism

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Medical condition caused by vitamin D deficiency

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Rickets

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Lived at the same time as Homo Sapiens

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Neanderthal

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Do not have prehensile tails

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Old World Monkeys

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Made the earliest known stone tools

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Homo habilis

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The earliest potential human ancestor listed above

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A. Afarensis

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Have binocular vision and a long period of infant dependency

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Primates

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Had a sagittal crest

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A. Robustus

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Live in the Americas

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New World Monkeys

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Which came first?
A. Afarensis
or
A. Robustus

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A. Afarensis

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Which came first?
Homo habilis
or
Homo erectus?

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Homo habilis

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Which had larger teeth?
A. Africanus
or
A. Boisei

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A. Boisei

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Which came first?
Homo Neanderthalensis
or
Homo Sapien

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Homo Neanderthalensis

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Most primates are omnivores which means that they

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have more food choices than other animals