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Introduction to Biological Anthropology Exam 3 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers James Hutton - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of modern geology Strata - CORRECT ANSWER - layers of earth older layers at the bottom layer "cutting through" horizontal layers are newer

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Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Exam 3 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
James Hutton - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of modern geology



Strata - CORRECT ANSWER - layers of earth
older layers at the bottom
layer "cutting through" horizontal layers are newer


Uniformitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER - natural processes as slow and uniform



William "Strata" Smith - CORRECT ANSWER - identified different strata across England
and Wales


Principle of Faunal Succession - CORRECT ANSWER - fossils follow each other through
different strata, indicating a succession through time.
older fossils found in lower strata


Body fossil - CORRECT ANSWER - mineralized bones
impressions of soft body parts


Trace fossils - CORRECT ANSWER - footprints
burrows
coprolite (dung)


Ideal fossilization conditions - CORRECT ANSWER - low acidic soil (shallow lake)
few micro organisms (bog)

, dry (mountain top, desert)
sedimentation to bury body (air, volcano, water)


Earth's age - CORRECT ANSWER - 4.6 billion years



Life on Earth age - CORRECT ANSWER - 3.5 billion year



Precambrian era - CORRECT ANSWER - 4.6 bya to 550 mya



Paleozoic era - CORRECT ANSWER - 570 mya to 230 mya
early life


mesozoic era - CORRECT ANSWER - 230 mya to 66 mya
middle life
age of dinosaurs
first birds and mammals


Cenozoic era - CORRECT ANSWER - 66 mya to present
new life
age of mammals
K-T boundary -> extinction of dinosaurs


7 Epochs of the Cenozoic - CORRECT ANSWER - Paleocene
Eocene
Oligocene
Miocene
Pliocene

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