The theory that maintains that although some changes in the earth's surface are immediately observable and caused by erosion and other natural processes, other changes are caused by gradual processes over extremely long periods of time is called:
a. natural selection
b. catastrophism
c. linearism
d. uniformitarianism
d
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According to anthropologists, the increased use of satellite data to study ecological changes in different regions of the world will lead to
A) more need for anthropological fieldwork, because satellite data must be interpreted from the perspective of the cultural practices of the people who manage the land. B) less need for anthropological fieldwork, because remote sensing will generate all the data required. C) the understanding that ecosystem changes are due only indirectly to human activities through global warming, rather than to decision making on a local level. D) finding that the data are not useful for anthropological study, because they cannot be used to interpret events in the past. E) none of the above.
Which Ethiopian scholar has been involved in the most recent finds of H. sapiens idaltu in Herto, Ethiopia, and argues that this is the earliest specimen find of anatomically modern H. sapiens?
a. Donald Johansson b. Xinzhi Wu c. Berhane Asfaw d. Tim White e. Louis Leakey
The children of your father's sister are called your cross cousins.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Reptiles were the dominant form of land vertebrate during the
a. Cenozoic. b. Paleozoic. c. Mesozoic. d. Precambrian. e. Permian.