Quiz 08| Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

Evolutionary niche ________.
a) is the active movement of an organism to a new environment causing a change in the selection pressures that it is subject to
b) is the sum of all of the natural selection pressures to which a population is exposed
c) refers to any species’ way of life
d) is the same as agroecology

Question 2:

Environmental niche ________.
a) is the active movement of an organism to a new environment causing a change in the selection pressures that it is subject to
b) is the sum of all of the natural selection pressures to which a population is exposed
c) refers to any species’ way of life
d) is the same as agroecology

Question 3:

Ecological niche ________.
a) is the active movement of an organism to a new environment causing a change in the selection pressures that it is subject to
b) is the sum of all of the natural selection pressures to which a population is exposed
c) refers to any species’ way of life
d) is the same as agroecology

Question 4:

All of these are used as archaeological evidence of animal domestication except ________.
a) the presence of animals outside of their natural range
b) morphological changes in the animal
c) a rapid decrease in the population of particular species of animals
d) an abrupt increase in the population of particular species of animal

Question 5:

The systematically modified environment (or constructed niche) that becomes the only environment within which domesticated plants can flourish is referred to as ________.
a) agriculture
b) sedentism
c) ecological niche
d) agroecology

Question 6:

One of the differences between domesticated and wild wheat is that ________.
a) the rachis of domesticated wheat is not brittle
b) domesticated wheat produces fewer seeds
c) the rachis of domesticated wheat is flimsy, allowing spikelets to easily disarticulate
d) domesticated wheat does not have spikelets

Question 7:

The oldest domesticated animal is the ________.
a) chicken
b) camel
c) horse
d) dog

Question 8:

Among the Natufians, much of the evidence for social stratification is derived from ________.
a) burials
b) the domestication of the dog
c) monumental architecture found on Natufian sites
d) remnants of weaving materials

Question 9:

The most common source of meat for Natufians was ________.
a) dog
b) cattle
c) goat
d) gazelle

Question 10:

Karl Wittfogel sees the development of ________ as the key to the evolution of complex society.
a) climatic change
b) hydraulic agriculture
c) population pressure
d) chiefdoms

Question 11:

Humans have spent the vast majority of our history and prehistory developing sustainable, sedentary habitats through the domestication of plants and animals.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Natural selection essentially promotes the matching of an organism’s phenotypic traits with subsystems of its environment.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture made humans more vulnerable to selective pressures associated with sedentism.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

All archaeological theories that attempt to explain the political, environmental and/or social ecology of pre-historical, complex societies must be understood as interpretive and unreliable.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Broad-spectrum foraging is widely held as the foundation of domestication, cultivation, sedentism, and capitalism.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Maintaining an agroecology increased social complexity and eventually led to the development and proliferation of stratification in most societies.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Agriculture is an essential component of sedentism.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Most scholars agree that explanations for the beginnings of domestication must take into account multiple factors.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

The prevalence of third-molar agenesis at the site of Hayonim Cave provides evidence that its residents mated with outsiders rather than members of their own group.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

All domesticated animals were originally domesticated to provide food for humans.
a) True
b) False

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