CHAPTER 1 FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME (MCQ )
Question 1.
Fossils found in the ______ were called Homo neanderthalensis.
(a) Barun Valley
(b) Hunza Valley
(c) Neander Valley
(d) Lidder Valley
Answer
Answer: (c) Neander Valley
Question 2.
What is the base of the classification of fossils of early humans?
(a) Bone Structure
(b) DNA
(c) Muscle Structure
(d) None of the above
Answer
Answer: (a) Bone Structure
Question 3.
An archaeological site, which was used for quarrying limestone was:
(a) Chesowanja, Kenya
(b) Schoningen, Germany
(c) Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic
(d) Neander Valley, Germany
Answer
Answer: (d) Neander Valley, Germany
Question 4.
The term pathological idiot has been used with reference to
(a) Australopithecus
(b) Homo Habilis
(c) Homo Erectus
(d) Neanderthal
Answer
Answer: (d) Neanderthal
Question 5.
Long forelimbs, Curved hand and foot bones, and mobile ankle joints helped ______ to live on trees.
(a) Hominidae
(b) Neanderthal
(c) Hominoids
(d) Australopithecus
Answer
Answer: (d) Australopithecus
Question 6.
Zagros mountains, which form one limit of the Fertile Crescent, is situated in:
(a) Egypt
(b) Lebanon
(c) Iran
(d) Syria
Answer
Answer: (c) Iran
Question 7.
The last Ice Age ended around:
(a) 15,000 years ago
(b) 14, 000 years ago
(c) 13,000 years ago
(d) 12,000 years ago
Answer
Answer: (c) 13,000 years ago
Question 8.
The main reason that led to a change from foraging to farming occupation was:
(a) Domestication
(b) End of Ice Age
(c) Making of iron tools
(d) Warmer and wetter conditions
Answer
Answer: (a) Domestication
Question 9.
The Hominids survived for about:
(a) 1 Million years
(b) 2 Million years
(c) 3 Million years
(d) 4 Million years
Answer
Answer: (a) 1 Million years
Question 10.
Dexterity of the hands refers to:
(a) Roughness of the hands
(b) Shape of the hands
(c) Hardness of the hands
(d) Flexibility of the hands
Answer
Answer: (d) Flexibility of the hands
Question 11.
Fossils of Hominid found in Asia were not older as compared to fossils found in ______
(a) Europe
(b) Africa
(c) Australia
(d) America
Answer
Answer: (b) Africa
Question 12.
Population pressure in some areas increased due to the
(a) end of the ice age
(b) change in climate
(c) increase in food availability
(d) domestication
Answer
Answer: (c) increase in food availability
Question 13.
In the Eastern Hadza community, the lands belonged to
(a) Women
(b) Headmen
(c) Clan
(d) No one
Answer
Answer: (d) No one
Question 14.
Genus is the branch of the:
(a) Hominids
(b) Hominoids
(c) Neanderthalensis
(d) Australopithecus
Answer
Answer: (a) Hominids
Question 15.
From which organism group the hominids were evolved?
(a) Neanderthal
(b) Hominoids
(c) Neanderthalensis
(d) Australopithecus
Answer
Answer: (b) Hominoids
Question 16.
The Hominids belong to a family which is known as _____
(a) Hominidae
(b) Neanderthal
(c) Clan
(d) Australopithecus
Answer
Answer: (a) Hominidae
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Question 1.
Female Figurines were known as
(a) Altamira
(b) Sahana
(c) Venuses
(d) Vestonice.
Answer
Answer: (c) Venuses
Question 2.
The earliest fossils from Europe are attributed to
(a) Australopithecus
(b) Homo Heidelbergensis
(c) Homo Habilis
(d) Homo erectus
Answer
Answer: (b) Homo Heidelbergensis
Question 3.
Period of Homo erectus, archaicHomosapiens, Neanderthals, homo sapiens sapiens is –
(a) 5mya to lmya
(b) 60,000 years ago
(c) lmya to 40,000 years ago
(d) 40,000 years ago.
Answer
Answer: (c) lmya to 40,000 years ago
Question 4.
Hominids immigrated from Africa to Asia during the period
(a) 5.6mya
(b) 0.8mya
(c) 2.0 – 1.5mya
(d) 2.2 – 2.0mya.
Answer
Answer: (c) 2.0 – 1.5mya
Question 5.
Anthropologist is a specialist who –
(a) Studies the social traits and behaviour.
(b) Studies human culture and societies as well as evolutionary aspects of human biology.
(c) Studies the general policies and ethics adopted by the society.
(d) Studies the ancient remains and antique.
Answer
Answer: (b) Studies human culture and societies as well as evolutionary aspects of human biology.
Question 6.
Hominid is a member of family
(a) Hominoid
(b) Australopithecus
(c) Homo erectus
(d) Hominidae
Answer
Answer: (d) Hominidae
Question 7.
Foraging means
(a) to adapt
(b) to search for food
(c) to migrate
(d) to shift
Answer
Answer: (b) to search for food
Question 8.
The name of a hunting-gathering society living in Kalahari’ Desert was-
(a) Chesowanja
(b) Pred mosti
(c) Kung-san
(d) Schoningen
Answer
Answer: (c) Kung-san
Question 9.
The primitive human species learned the use of fire
(a) 3.41akh years ago
(b) 1
(c) 75,000 years ago
(d) 80,000 years ago
Answer
Answer: (b) 1
Fill in the blanks
Hominids, Land-rover, species, Dusseldorf, mammals, Homo erectus, Sub-Saharan Africa, Glaciation, Hqmo habilis, Oldurai George, predators.
Question 1.
……………… was the first specie of Homo genus.
Answer
Answer: Homo habilis
Question 2.
Australopithecus, early Homo Genus and specie of Homo erectus dated to 5mya to lmya were discovered from ………………
Answer
Answer: Sub Saharan, Africa
Question 3.
……………… was the succeeding member of super family dated to 24mya.
Answer
Answer: Hominids
Question 4.
……………… is a species of Homo genus in which the primitive man could walk bipedal comfortably.
Answer
Answer: Homo erectus
Question 5.
……………… are the carnivorous organisms who kill other organisms.
Answer
Answer: Predators
Question 6.
……………… is a ravine in the Serengeti Plain in modem Tanzania.
Answer
Answer: Oldurai George
Question 7.
……………… is a jeep like vehicle.
Answer
Answer: Land- rover
Question 8.
……………… is a very large biological group of organisms.
Answer
Answer: mammals
Question 9.
Around 2.5mya the larger part of earth was covered with the ice and major changes took place in climate and vegetation. Owing to reduction in temperature during ……………… the grassland areas expanded at the expense of forests.
Answer
Answer: glaciations
Question 10.
……………… is a group of organisms that can inter-breed to produce fertile offspring.
Answer
Answer: species
Question 11.
……………… is a city in Germany.
Answer
Answer: Dusseldorf.
Match the Following
| Column A | Column B |
| (i) China | (a) 45,000 – 35,000 ya |
| (ii) Ethiopia | (b) 35,000ya |
| (iii) Borneo | (c) 70,000 – 50,000 ya |
| (iv) Australia | (d) 170,000 – 50,000 ya |
| (v) France | (e) 195,000 – 160,000 ya |
| (vi) Israel | (f) 1,00,000 – 80,000 ya |
| (vii) South Africa | (g) 40,000 ya |
| (viii) Morocco | (h) 20,000 – 15,000 ya |
Answer
Answer:
Column A Column B (i) China (h) 20,000 – 15,000 ya (ii) Ethiopia (e) 195,000 – 160,000 ya (iii) Borneo (g) 40,000 ya (iv) Australia (a) 45,000 – 35,000 ya (v) France (b) 35,000ya (vi) Israel (f) 1,00,000 – 80,000 ya (vii) South Africa (d) 170,000 – 50,000 ya (viii) Morocco (c) 70,000 – 50,000 ya
Column A Column B (i) Kanapoi, Kenya (a) 3.9 mya (ii) Bahrel Ghazal, Chad. (b) 3,0 – 3.4 mya (iii) Allia Bay, Kenya (c) 4.1 (iv) Lothagam, Kenya (d) 3.2 (v) Hadar, Ethiopia (e) 5.6 (vi) Laetoli, Tanzania (f) 3.4 (vii) Omo, Ethiopia (g) 5.6
Answer
Answer:
Column A Column B (i) Kanapoi, Kenya (c) 4.1 (ii) Bahrel Ghazal, Chad. (b) 3,0 – 3.4 mya (iii) Allia Bay, Kenya (a) 3.9 mya (iv) Lothagam, Kenya (g) 5.6 (v) Hadar, Ethiopia (d) 3.2 (vi) Laetoli, Tanzania (e) 5.6 (vii) Omo, Ethiopia (f) 3.4
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Answer
Answer:
| Column A | Column B |
| (i) Kanapoi, Kenya | (c) 4.1 |
| (ii) Bahrel Ghazal, Chad. | (b) 3,0 – 3.4 mya |
| (iii) Allia Bay, Kenya | (a) 3.9 mya |
| (iv) Lothagam, Kenya | (g) 5.6 |
| (v) Hadar, Ethiopia | (d) 3.2 |
| (vi) Laetoli, Tanzania | (e) 5.6 |
| (vii) Omo, Ethiopia | (f) 3.4 |
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