Question 1

Agricultural foods eventually shifted nutrition from a generalized diet to one:

Accepted Answer

A)  with low levels of carbohydrates.
B)  with high levels of carbohydrates and poor quality proteins.
C)  with high levels of carbohydrates and high quality proteins.
D)  with low levels of both fat and carbohydrates.

Question 2

What do bone comparisons between hunter-gatherers and later agriculturalists,followed by modern peoples,show?

Accepted Answer

A)  an increase in size
B)  greater robusticity of the long arm bones only
C)  a decline in size
D)  a stasis in bone density

Question 3

What does an oval cross-section of an adult human femur suggest?

Accepted Answer

A)  The individual was likely very physically active.
B)  The individual was lethargic and largely sedentary.
C)  The individual had a nutritional deficiency as a child.
D)  You cannot discern anything from the shape of a bone.

Question 4

Tooth size and jaw size have reduced in the last:

Accepted Answer

A)  17,000 yBP.
B)  10,000 yBP.
C)  6,000 yBP.
D)  3,000 yBP.

Question 5

________ iron is found in some foods that provide all the amino acids humans require for the absorption of iron.

Accepted Answer

A)  Heme
B)  Nonheme
C)  Flat
D)  Raw

Question 6

What was a major cause of the adaptive success characterized by population explosion?

Accepted Answer

A)  a decreased food supply
B)  an increased food supply
C)  agriculture
D)  a sedentary lifestyle

Question 7

What did the widespread use of pottery lead to?

Accepted Answer

A)  more efficient foraging for wild plants
B)  lengthening of the cranial vault and an increase in tooth size
C)  shortening of the skull and decrease in tooth size
D)  increase in tooth wear

Question 8

Where is the Neolithic site Çatalhöyük located?

Accepted Answer

A)  southwest Asia
B)  southern Africa
C)  central Mexico
D)  India

Question 9

During your lab you are asked to identify the pathological feature of spongy bone invading the eye socket that occurs in the interior upper surface of the eye sockets.What is your diagnosis of the condition?

Accepted Answer

A)  porotic hyperostosis,resulting from iron-deficiency anemia
B)  periosteal reaction,resulting from changes in diet
C)  ameloblasts,resulting from changes in diet and parasitic infection
D)  cribra orbitalia,resulting from iron-deficiency anemia or parasitic infection

Question 10

Which of the following characterizes global temperature changes since the Last Interglacial?

Accepted Answer

A)  100,000 years of highly variable but mostly cold climate followed by 10,000 years of warm and less variable climate
B)  steadily warming climate
C)  steadily cooling climate
D)  50,000 years with little change followed by 50,000 years of rapid change

Question 11

Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated.By when were they domesticated?

Accepted Answer

A)  before 15,000 years ago
B)  the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic
C)  the Lower Paleolithic
D)  the beginning of the Cenozoic

Question 12

What are cavities in the teeth also called?

Accepted Answer

A)  hypoplasias
B)  enamel defects
C)  dentin foramina
D)  dental caries

Question 13

What form of subsistence pattern is found in the Neolithic period? Name three geographic regions where Neolithic lifeways appeared independently.

Accepted Answer

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Question 14

What two phenomena accompanied the frequent occurrence of agriculture around the world?

Accepted Answer

A)  increase in population size and food shortages
B)  change in climate and consequent change in environment
C)  distribution of land wealth and trade of produce
D)  decline in nutritional quality and increase in infectious disease

Question 15

By the close of the Pleistocene,what was the size of the human population?

Accepted Answer

A)  several thousand
B)  7 billion
C)  several million
D)  1 billion

Question 16

What does the masticatory-functional hypothesis state?

Accepted Answer

A)  Over time there was a clear reduction in the size of the face and jaws.
B)  Tooth and jaw size have decreased over time.
C)  Change in skull form represents a response to decreased demands on the chewing muscles.
D)  Tooth and jaw size increased over time.

Question 17

Parasitic infections are a primary cause of ________ in many regions of the globe.

Accepted Answer

A)  iron-deficiency anemia
B)  Staphylococcus aureus
C)  treponematoses
D)  endemic disease

Question 18

What did the Neolithic demographic transition cause?

Accepted Answer

A)  a decrease in birthrate
B)  earlier weaning
C)  a slow increase in the world's population
D)  a shift from low birthrate to high birthrate

Question 19

The archaeological record suggests that farming began in southeastern Turkey by:

Accepted Answer

A)  6,000 yBP.
B)  4,000 yBP.
C)  1,500 yBP.
D)  10,500 yBP.

Question 20

What was probably the cause of the human population increase of the Holocene?

Accepted Answer

A)  a decrease in disease as a result of sedentism
B)  more effective medical practices
C)  decreased birth spacing
D)  a dramatic increase in nutritional quality as a result of agriculture

Exam 13: The Past 10, 000 Years: Agriculture, population, biology

Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated.By when were they domesticated?

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What was a major cause of the adaptive success characterized by population explosion?

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Which of the following characterizes global temperature changes since the Last Interglacial?

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Where is the Neolithic site Çatalhöyük located?

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What are cavities in the teeth also called?

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Tooth size and jaw size have reduced in the last:

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What was probably the cause of the human population increase of the Holocene?

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________ iron is found in some foods that provide all the amino acids humans require for the absorption of iron.

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What does an oval cross-section of an adult human femur suggest?

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During your lab you are asked to identify the pathological feature of spongy bone invading the eye socket that occurs in the interior upper surface of the eye sockets.What is your diagnosis of the condition?

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What does the masticatory-functional hypothesis state?

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The archaeological record suggests that farming began in southeastern Turkey by:

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What do bone comparisons between hunter-gatherers and later agriculturalists,followed by modern peoples,show?

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By the close of the Pleistocene,what was the size of the human population?

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What did the widespread use of pottery lead to?

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What two phenomena accompanied the frequent occurrence of agriculture around the world?

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What did the Neolithic demographic transition cause?

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Parasitic infections are a primary cause of ________ in many regions of the globe.

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Agricultural foods eventually shifted nutrition from a generalized diet to one:

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What form of subsistence pattern is found in the Neolithic period? Name three geographic regions where Neolithic lifeways appeared independently.

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