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,CHAPTER 01: What Is Physical Anthropology?MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Before AD 1000, what did the people of St. Catherines Island eat?
a. They ate wild animals, fish, and wild plants.
b. They ate bison and salmon.
c. They were vegetarians and ate wild plants exclusively.
d. They ate mostly fruit.
ANS: A DIF: Easy
OBJ: Characterize the importance of the biocultural approach to anthropological inquiry
TOP: What is physical anthropology? MSC: Remembering
2. What was the cause of the biological change in the indigenous people of St. Catherines Island after AD
1000?
a. They became sedentary and had less food to eat because they stayed in the same area.
b. They became sedentary and consumed more corn, which caused dental disease due to its
high sugar content.
c. They became sedentary and did not have enough exercise to keep their bodies fit and
healthy.
d. They continued as nomads, but loss of animals due to climate change created a decline in
their food source.
ANS: D DIF: Easy
OBJ: Characterize the importance of the biocultural approach to anthropological inquiry
TOP: What is physical anthropology? MSC: Understanding
3. What can be learned from studying a population through time?
a. We can learn that lifestyles do not change over time.
b. We can learn that diets, and therefore human biology, change through time.
c. We can learn that consuming the wrong foods over time does little to population health.
d. We can learn that human physiology does not change through time.
ANS: B DIF: Moderate
OBJ: Characterize the importance of the biocultural approach to anthropological inquiry
TOP: What is physical anthropology? MSC: Understanding
4. Physical anthropologists seek to study:
a. humans from a cultural perspective.
b. humans from a biological perspective only.
c. humans from a biological and cultural perspective.
d. human behavior only.
ANS: C DIF: Easy
OBJ: Explain the differences and similarities among the four branches of anthropology
TOP: What is physical anthropology? MSC: Understanding
5. Physical anthropologists view how humans come to be the way they are as the result of:
a. their biological makeups, which primarily define who they are.
b. both evolutionary history and their own individual life histories.
c. what their genes make them; environment has very little effect.
d. their environment; genes have very little effect.
, ANS: B DIF: Moderate
OBJ: Explain the differences and similarities among the four branches of anthropology
TOP: What is physical anthropology? MSC: Understanding
6. Physical anthropologists:
a. travel around the world to investigate human populations.
b. study living populations.
c. study primates like lemurs, monkeys, and apes.
d. travel around the world to investigate human populations; study living populations, and
study primates like lemurs, monkeys, and apes.
ANS: D DIF: Easy
OBJ: Identify several different research areas in physical anthropology
TOP: What is physical anthropology? MSC: Remembering
7. Primates are:
a. a group of mammals that share traits like forward-facing eyes, fingernails, and large
brains.
b. often species with a long snout.
c. diverse species that live in various types of environments.
d. both a. and c.
ANS: D DIF: Moderate
OBJ: Identify several different research areas in physical anthropology
TOP: What is physical anthropology? MSC: Remembering
8. Physical anthropologists study what type of science?
a. astrological c. social
b. biological d. biological and social
ANS: D DIF: Moderate
OBJ: Explain the differences and similarities among the four branches of anthropology
TOP: What is physical anthropology? MSC: Remembering
9. Bipedalism in primates means:
a. walking on two feet. c. walking using two legs and a tail.
b. walking on four feet. d. swinging from branch to branch.
ANS: A DIF: Moderate
OBJ: Identify the six major attributes that separate humans from animals
TOP: What is so different about humans from other animals? MSC: Remembering
10. What are three key attributes related to human uniqueness?
a. eating, sleeping, and watching television
b. increased hunting, speech, and dependence on domesticated food
c. hunting, avoiding predators, and tool making
d. sleeping, hunting, and making clothing
ANS: B DIF: Easy
OBJ: Identify the six major attributes that separate humans from animals
TOP: What is so different about humans from other animals? MSC: Remembering
11. What makes it possible for humans to accumulate an amazing amount of information over long periods
of time?
a. social learning c. social media
, b. television d. mimicry
ANS: A DIF: Moderate
OBJ: Explain the importance of the six major attributes that distinguish humans from animals
TOP: What is so different about humans from other animals? MSC: Understanding
12. Archaeologists:
a. study primate evolution.
b. devote most of their effort to recovering artifacts and building museum collections.
c. study past human societies, focusing mostly on their material remains.
d. primarily study the evolution of language.
ANS: C DIF: Moderate
OBJ: Explain the differences and similarities among the four branches of anthropology
TOP: The four branches of anthropology MSC: Remembering
13. An archaeological field school is announced in your anthropology course. The description says that
you will travel to Belize to learn about the lives of the ancient Mayans. What, primarily, do you expect
to learn during this field school?
a. what species of nonhuman primate occupies this region
b. how current populations of immigrants have changed local dialects
c. how to excavate and study material culture
d. how to socially navigate life in a Central American setting
ANS: C DIF: Moderate
OBJ: Explain the differences and similarities among the four branches of anthropology
TOP: The four branches of anthropology MSC: Analyzing
14. The scientific method:
a. relies on making hunches about the natural world.
b. involves empirical data collection and hypothesis testing.
c. is used to support preconceived notions or theories.
d. seeks to establish the absolute scientific truth.
ANS: B DIF: Moderate
OBJ: Explain the four steps involved in “doing science” (i.e., the scientific method)
TOP: How do we know what we know? MSC: Understanding
15. A hypothesis is:
a. another word for a theory.
b. a testable statement that potentially explains specific phenomena observed in the natural
world.
c. a statement concerning scientific facts assumed to be true.
d. unable to be refuted by future investigations.
ANS: B DIF: Moderate OBJ: Distinguish between hypotheses and theories
TOP: How do we know what we know? MSC: Understanding
16. The hypothesis that the origin of human bipedalism was linked to a shift from life in the trees to life on
the ground in the grasslands of Africa:
a. has been upheld by subsequent scientific data on human origins.
b. was developed in consultation with genetic and fossil evidence.
c. has been rejected recently subsequent to new fossil evidence.
d. has become a scientific law.
ANS: A DIF: Moderate OBJ: Distinguish between hypotheses and theories
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