How did climatic changes influence the evolution of hominids from anthropoids? What will be an ideal response?
Climatic changes in the Miocene and Pliocene resulted in the replacement of African tropical
rainforests with vast savannas. As the savannas and grasslands continued to expand, the
hominids made the transition from forest dwellers to life in an environment of mixed forests and
grasslands.
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An object is propelled along a straight-line path in space by a force. If the mass of the object somehow becomes twice as much, its acceleration
A) quadruples. B) doubles. C) stays the same. D) halves. E) none of the above
Planetary differentiation relies upon
A) heat. B) chemical composition. C) pressure. D) density.
What type of plate boundary would continental volcanoes like the Cascade Mountains in the western United States be associated with?
A) Divergent plate boundaries B) Convergent plate boundaries C) Transform plate boundaries D) All of these choices
An organism's ________ for many environmental factors determines where it can live
A) range of tolerance B) fitness C) carrying capacity D) adaptations E) survivorship