Question 1

In the American Midwest,about when were native seed crops goosefoot,sumpweed,and sunflowers farmed?

Accepted Answer

A)  11,500 yBP
B)  8,000 yBP
C)  6,000-1,000 yBP
D)  10,500 yBP C

Question 2

A(n)________ is a scientist who studies plant remains in the archaeological record.

Accepted Answer

A)  paleontologist
B)  paleoethnobotanist
C)  ethnologist
D)  zooarchaeologist B

Question 3

The adoption of agriculture resulted in the development and spread of:

Accepted Answer

A)  weight gain.
B)  infectious disease.
C)  an increase in health generally.
D)  an increase in body size. B

Question 4

What do hunter-gatherers' skeletons tend to show,compared to the skeletal remains of agricultural populations?

Accepted Answer

A)  more evidence of infectious disease
B)  higher levels of activity
C)  lower workload/activity
D)  bones with lower density

Question 5

Two-thirds of calorie intake comes from the key cereal grains domesticated in the earlier Holocene,especially:

Accepted Answer

A)  barley,sorghum,and wheat.
B)  wheat,barley,corn,and rice.
C)  oats,wheat,and rice.
D)  corn,rice,and beans.

Question 6

Which of the following are New World domesticated plants?

Accepted Answer

A)  yam,taro,rice
B)  sunflower,chenopod,lima
C)  mung bean,millet,sorghum
D)  rye,emmer wheat,figs

Question 7

What is a symptom of anemia in which spongy bone invades the eye sockets?

Accepted Answer

A)  hyperosteitis
B)  trabeculitis
C)  orbital arthritis
D)  cribra orbitalia

Question 8

What do comparisons of the bones from hunter-gatherers to later agriculturalists to modern peoples show?

Accepted Answer

A)  a remarkable decline in size
B)  an increase in size
C)  variation in size to a high degree
D)  no change in size over time

Question 9

What was a result of agriculture?

Accepted Answer

A)  higher-quality nutrition
B)  a stable,healthy food source
C)  population sedentism and crowding
D)  delayed weaning,leading to smaller family size

Question 10

To what might some cases of anemia,which causes red blood cell production to increase in response to iron deficiency or blood loss,lead?

Accepted Answer

A)  cribra orbitalia in eye orbits
B)  expansion and porosity of long bones
C)  a parasitic infection
D)  a genetic disease

Question 11

Which of the following describes the "Fertile Crescent"?

Accepted Answer

A)  a form of wheat domesticated in North Africa
B)  a region of grassland and woodlands in West Asia
C)  a rainforest region in South America linked to early agriculture
D)  a stone tool designed to harvest grains

Question 12

Based on the archaeological record from various areas,what was the initial effect of agriculture on height?

Accepted Answer

A)  Height decreased.
B)  Height increased.
C)  Height became more variable within the population.
D)  Height stayed the same.

Question 13

Discuss the evidence from the skeletons and teeth of early agriculturalists.Then describe the negative consequences of a shift from food foraging to the domestication of food in terms of pathologic evidence.

Accepted Answer

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Question 14

What can anemia lead to?

Accepted Answer

A)  cancer
B)  porotic hyperostosis
C)  heart disease
D)  measles

Question 15

Domestication produced more food per unit area of land than had hunting and gathering.What did this mean?

Accepted Answer

A)  More people were needed to produce more food.
B)  More people could be fed from the same amount of land.
C)  More storage was necessary for the extra food provided by domestication.
D)  Fewer people were available for labor.

Question 16

Domestication of plants and animals led to stable food supplies during the Holocene;however,it also resulted in significant environmental and health problems.Discuss these problems in terms of natural selection.

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

What happened as towns and cities began to compete for increasingly limited resources?

Accepted Answer

A)  Organized warfare developed.
B)  Cooperation among neighbors developed.
C)  Agriculture increased as well.
D)  Violence decreased.

Question 18

Discuss how morphologic changes to modern humans' faces,mandibles,and teeth changed after the shift to agriculture and consumption of softer foods.

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

What did New World domesticated products include?

Accepted Answer

A)  wheat
B)  rice
C)  cotton
D)  pigs

Question 20

What is the last 10,000 years called?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Cenozoic
B)  the Quaternary
C)  the Solutrean
D)  the Holocene

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