Miocene - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

ANTH 101 Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers Explain how fossils are formed and why they are not equally prevalent in all areas. - Answer-fossils are the remains of past life forms that have been partially or wholly transformed into rock and displaced through a long process of chemical replacement. minerals in bones and teeth are replaced with rock forming minerals like iron and silica. can be from any body part however 99% are made up of teeth and and bones. taphonomy (how fossils a...

First Human Exam BIOL 101 with complete solution;2023 guide What was significant about Michael Bruner's find? 3.5 million-year-old jawbone found among the Djurab desert of Chad. Late Miocene hominid nicknamed Toumai; which may predate earliest current hominid find called 'Lucy. ' Brunet had a revelation: his team had found the same kinds of animal bones at sites in Chad that White & his colleagues had found with their fossils of early human ancestors in Ethiopia What fossil finds ar...

SOCA 105 Exam 3 Snyder WVU questions and answers latest top score. Paleoanthropology - correct answer. study of hominid and human life through the fossil record Biological/Physical Anthropology - correct answer. study of human biological variation in time and space Primatology - correct answer. study of biology, evolution, behavior, and social life of primates Anthropometry - correct answer. measurement of body parts, and bones. used for classification and c...

what is the tertiary period (According to the coursekit article) - the rise of dominance of the mammals. - what happened by the early Eocene in the late cretaceous period, mammals that lived in the undergrowth and hid from the dinosaurs, now more than 20 orders of mammals evolved rapidly and were established by the early Eocene. what happened at the end of the Paleocene? a major episode of faunal turnover largely replaced archaic groups with essentially modern groups such as th...

Fundamentals of Geology Exam Questions And Answers With Complete solutions When water contacts pyrite at the earth's surface, the runoff is commonly: Acidic In an eolian sand aquifer, hydraulic conductivity would be expected to generally: Be uniform Which of the following pairs likely would be composed of sediments with DIFFERENT grain size and sorting characteristics? Outwash plain - end moraine It has been determined that a prospective strippable reserve contains 1000 acres (1 acre =...

ASM 104, Quiz 3 Exam Questions And Answers. 7 Epochs of the Cenozoic era - answer1. Paleocene (65-56 ma) 2. Eocene (56-34 ma) 3. Oligocene (34-23 ma) 4. Miocene (23-5 ma) 5. Pliocene (5-2.5 ma) 6. Pleistocene (2.5 ma-10,000 years) 7. Holocene (10,000 - present) how was weather characterized during the Cenozoic era - answerGradual cooling what type of forests existed before the Paleocene Epoch - answerGymnosperm (Hot, open, simple, reptiles are the dominant animal) What replaced Gymno...

ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM 3 WVU questions and answers latest top score. what makes us human? - correct answer. Bipedalism, brains, skulls, Childhood dependency, tools, teeth biopedalism - correct answer. stresses the advantages it provided in a habitat increasingly dominated by dry, savanna-like conditions. Brains and skulls - correct answer. Early hominins had very small brains, Brain size has increased during hominin evolution, especially with the advent of the genus Ho...

How is island biogeography analogous to whole-earth biogeography? - ANSWER-earth is like an island in space How does an island's size relate to its diversity? - ANSWER-bigger islands have more diversity How does an island's distance from the mainland relate to its diversity? - ANSWER-the closer to the mainland, the more diversity Are all biogeographical islands actually islands? Give examples of some that are not. - ANSWER-no, alpine zones, ponds, and isolated forests How did Simbe...

Culture (Earliest Evidences) - answer-1. Learned behaviors, beliefs, characteristics of a particular society or population. 2. Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs. 3. beginning of religious thought, storytelling, creating science/art/music/poetry/song/speech 4. culture rooted in biology, general intelligence/size of neocortex 4 modules of theory of mind - answer-1. Social: Understand behavior 2. Physics: Understand motion/action/reaction 3. Linguistics: Speak 4. Nat...

A growth fault is similar to a ________________, except that it ________________. - ANSWER-normal fault; occurs simultaneously with the deposition of sedimentary rock Growth faults are typical in areas characterized by ________________ such as in ________________ or any other region in which ________________. - ANSWER-ongoing sedimentation; river deltas; the Earth's crust is sinking at a fast pace Detachment faults are ________________ typically with displacement in the ________________ r...