ASB222 Midterm Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
An adaptation is:
a "strategy" for survival
a change in behavior
an invented pattern
an improvement or refinement in some biological characteristic - ANSWER✔️✔️-a "strategy" for
survival
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system divided human history into which three ages:
Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic
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,Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic
Pliocene, Miocene, Pleistocene
Stone, Bronze, Iron - ANSWER✔️✔️-Stone, Bronze, Iron
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system was based on a perceived regular pattern of change
through time in human:
technology
intelligence
social systems
religion - ANSWER✔️✔️-Technology
Bishop Ussher is best known for his:
acceptance of a uniformitarian perspective
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,support of empiricism
belief in an ancient and changing earth
determination that the world was created by God in 4004 B.C. - ANSWER✔️✔️-determination
that the world was created by God in 4004 B.C.
The flint implements found by Boucher de Perthes were dated on the basis of:
radiocarbon dating
potassium/argon dating
stratigraphy
seriation - ANSWER✔️✔️-stratigraphy
The statement "The operations of nature are equable and steady" reflects:
the uniformitarian perspective
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, an anti-evolutionary perspective
a biblical perspective
a catastrophist perspective - ANSWER✔️✔️-the uniformitarian perspective
Thomsen's three-age system reflected a view of cultural evolution that can best be characterized as:
unilineal
multilineal
cyclical
biblical - ANSWER✔️✔️-unilineal
French customs official Jacques Boucher de Perthes thought that the hundreds of flint tools he
found in his excavations in the high gravel terrace overlooking the River Somme in northern France
dated to:
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Questions and Answers
An adaptation is:
a "strategy" for survival
a change in behavior
an invented pattern
an improvement or refinement in some biological characteristic - ANSWER✔️✔️-a "strategy" for
survival
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system divided human history into which three ages:
Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic
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,Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic
Pliocene, Miocene, Pleistocene
Stone, Bronze, Iron - ANSWER✔️✔️-Stone, Bronze, Iron
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system was based on a perceived regular pattern of change
through time in human:
technology
intelligence
social systems
religion - ANSWER✔️✔️-Technology
Bishop Ussher is best known for his:
acceptance of a uniformitarian perspective
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,support of empiricism
belief in an ancient and changing earth
determination that the world was created by God in 4004 B.C. - ANSWER✔️✔️-determination
that the world was created by God in 4004 B.C.
The flint implements found by Boucher de Perthes were dated on the basis of:
radiocarbon dating
potassium/argon dating
stratigraphy
seriation - ANSWER✔️✔️-stratigraphy
The statement "The operations of nature are equable and steady" reflects:
the uniformitarian perspective
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, an anti-evolutionary perspective
a biblical perspective
a catastrophist perspective - ANSWER✔️✔️-the uniformitarian perspective
Thomsen's three-age system reflected a view of cultural evolution that can best be characterized as:
unilineal
multilineal
cyclical
biblical - ANSWER✔️✔️-unilineal
French customs official Jacques Boucher de Perthes thought that the hundreds of flint tools he
found in his excavations in the high gravel terrace overlooking the River Somme in northern France
dated to:
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