ANTH 1210 (Midterm 1) questions with
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Four fields of anthropology - correct answer ✔✔cultural, linguistic, archaeology,
biological
Biocultural approach - correct answer ✔✔interrelationship between biology and
culture; the study of human biological evolution and human biocultural variation
6 key human attributes (what makes us different) - correct answer ✔✔bipedalism,
nonhoning chewing, complex material culture, hunting, speech, domestication of
food
5 disciplines of evolutionary theory - correct answer ✔✔geology, paleontology,
taxonomy and systematics, demography, evolutionary biology
James Hutton - correct answer ✔✔dissatisfied with interpretation of earth's
history, natural forces and affect on Scottish landscapes, strata, coined the term
uniformitarianism
uniformitarianism - correct answer ✔✔process that occured in the geological past
are still at work today
Charles Lyell - correct answer ✔✔rediscovered uniformitarianism, confirmation of
Hutton, calculated strata age and confirmed Earth is millions of years olds
, Robert Hooke - correct answer ✔✔structure of fossil wood, tissues identical to
living trees therefore fossil wood was created from once living trees, cells
Georges Couvier - correct answer ✔✔french naturalist, pioneer of comparative
anatomy, found unique fossils in each strata -> extinction of plants and animals
Catastrophism - correct answer ✔✔concept that cataclysmic events are
responsible for differences observed between organisms (extinction -> vacancy ->
repopulation)
taxonomy - correct answer ✔✔classification of past life forms
systemics - correct answer ✔✔study of biological relationships over time
Carolus Linnaeus - correct answer ✔✔swedish naturalist, binomial nomenclature,
acknowledged different degrees in physical similarity (levels)
Malthus - correct answer ✔✔population limited by food supply; who survives to
reproductive age -> those who can successfully compete for food
Lamarck - correct answer ✔✔self improvement , new anatomical modifications,
pass acquired modification onto offspring; right about process wrong about the
mechanism
adaption - correct answer ✔✔physical characteristics that enhance an organisms
ability to survive and reproduce
complete solutions already passed
Four fields of anthropology - correct answer ✔✔cultural, linguistic, archaeology,
biological
Biocultural approach - correct answer ✔✔interrelationship between biology and
culture; the study of human biological evolution and human biocultural variation
6 key human attributes (what makes us different) - correct answer ✔✔bipedalism,
nonhoning chewing, complex material culture, hunting, speech, domestication of
food
5 disciplines of evolutionary theory - correct answer ✔✔geology, paleontology,
taxonomy and systematics, demography, evolutionary biology
James Hutton - correct answer ✔✔dissatisfied with interpretation of earth's
history, natural forces and affect on Scottish landscapes, strata, coined the term
uniformitarianism
uniformitarianism - correct answer ✔✔process that occured in the geological past
are still at work today
Charles Lyell - correct answer ✔✔rediscovered uniformitarianism, confirmation of
Hutton, calculated strata age and confirmed Earth is millions of years olds
, Robert Hooke - correct answer ✔✔structure of fossil wood, tissues identical to
living trees therefore fossil wood was created from once living trees, cells
Georges Couvier - correct answer ✔✔french naturalist, pioneer of comparative
anatomy, found unique fossils in each strata -> extinction of plants and animals
Catastrophism - correct answer ✔✔concept that cataclysmic events are
responsible for differences observed between organisms (extinction -> vacancy ->
repopulation)
taxonomy - correct answer ✔✔classification of past life forms
systemics - correct answer ✔✔study of biological relationships over time
Carolus Linnaeus - correct answer ✔✔swedish naturalist, binomial nomenclature,
acknowledged different degrees in physical similarity (levels)
Malthus - correct answer ✔✔population limited by food supply; who survives to
reproductive age -> those who can successfully compete for food
Lamarck - correct answer ✔✔self improvement , new anatomical modifications,
pass acquired modification onto offspring; right about process wrong about the
mechanism
adaption - correct answer ✔✔physical characteristics that enhance an organisms
ability to survive and reproduce
