The first reefal frameworks appeared during the Early _____.

• A) Cambrian
• B) Precambrian
• C) Paleocene
• D) Miocene

_____ are observations of the appearance and disappearance of species.

• A) clades
• B) Patterns
• C) Process
• D) laws

Global diversification pattern is comprises of _____ mathematical patterns.

• A) 5
• B) 2
• C) 4
• D) 3

Second major marine reptile group is ______.

• A) Plesiosaurs
• B) none
• C) dinosaurs
• D) Icthysaurs

The extraordinary diversity of tetrapod predators in the sea came to an end ____ Ma.

• A) 65
• B) 75
• C) 45
• D) 55

Primates have _____ vision.

• A) none
• B) binocular
• C) both
• D) ocular

Non-seed-bearing plants arose during _____ era.

• A) Precambrian
• B) Silurian
• C) Devonian
• D) Cambrian

Gymnosperms are _____ plants.

• A) none-seed
• B) seeded
• C) none
• D) fungi-like

Modern birds appeared in the latest _____ and Early _____.

• A) Tertiary
• B) none
• C) both
• D) Cretaceous

The theropods and sauropodomorphs share the primitive reptilian _____ pattern.

• A) jaw
• B) limbs
• C) pelvis
• D) hip

.....................Lived in Africa from 2.4 to 1.5 Ma

• A) Homo sapiens
• B) Homo habilis
• C) Homo neanderthalis
• D) Homo erectus

A new species, H. erectus, which arose in Africa about ____ Ma.

• A) 4.9
• B) 2.9
• C) 3.9
• D) 1.9

True monkeys arose in the _____.

• A) Jurassic
• B) Paleocene
• C) Miocene
• D) Eocene

John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry (1997) identified ____ major steps from the origin of life to human societies with language.

• A) 5
• B) 7
• C) 8
• D) 6

Primitive forms remained small through most of the ______.

• A) Miocene
• B) Jurassic
• C) Triassic
• D) Mesozoic

After the Late Triassic extinction, a new group of ............ dinosaurs, the sauropodomorphs, radiated dramatically,some like Plateosaurus.

• A) carnivorous
• B) omnivorous
• C) herbivorous
• D) frugivorous

Fish-shaped animals, adapted to life in the sea called as ______.

• A) none
• B) theropods
• C) ichthyosaurs
• D) both

Mammals belongs to group _____.

• A) Ungulates
• B) none
• C) both
• D) Primates

Herbivorous dinosaurs were called as ____

• A) none
• B) hetrotrophs
• C) autotrophs
• D) sauropodomorphs

The ancestors of humans and chimps separated about _____ Ma.

• A) 6-4
• B) 8–6
• C) 9-8
• D) 7-5