Anthropology

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	Early food producers have developed several major crop complexes. What are they?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. was an urbanized society in which kinship played no role in determining status     2. was a stratified society based on achievement and education     3. was invincible to Cortes’ attack      4. two adapted to dry uplands and two adapted to tropical wetlands      5. was an industrial city-state     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	With urbanization came a sharp increase in the tempo of human cultural change. Which of the following occurred with urbanization?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. the wheel and the sail were invented     2. monumental buildings were constructed     3. writing was invented     4. trade intensified and expanded      5. all of the above      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	To say that food foraging societies are egalitarian means that _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. the only status differences are age and sex      2. men are usually subordinate to women     3. everyone is equal except women     4. children are the center of community life     5. there are no status differences     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	_______________ introduced the term Neolithic revolution to refer to the profound culture change associated with domestication of plants and animals.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. Franz Boas     2. James G. Frazer      3. Gordon Childe      4. Stephen Jay Gould     5. Jane Goodall     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The hunting and butchering of large game as well as the processing of hard or tough raw materials are almost universally _______________ occupations.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. respected     2. female     3. stigmatized     4. gender shared      5. male      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The transition from food foraging to food production first took place about _______________ years ago in _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. 15,000/Nile River region     2. 3,000/Yangtze River Valley     3. 7,000/the Highlands of Mesoamerica      4. 10,000/Southwest Asia      5. 5,000/Tigris Euphrates area     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The Inna Indians ________________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. live in Labrador     2. relied heavily on hunting to obtain food     3. kept men’s and women’s tasks separate     4. accorded women great autonomy     5. all of the above      Score: 0/0.5
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	Sexual division of labor is influenced by biological factors. Which of the following is not a relevant factor in determining sexual division of labor?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. Women’s jobs tend to be compatible with childcare.     2. Men are more expendable for purposes of reproduction.      3. Women with nursing children are restricted in their ability to travel long distances.     4. Women are naturally attracted to gathering plant food.      5. Women generally cannot run as fast as men.     Score: 0/0.5
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	Ovulation requires a certain minimum of body fat, and in traditional foraging societies, this is not achieved until _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. early teens     2. late adolescence     3. middle adulthood     4. early 30s      5. early adulthood      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	A peoples’ cultural _______________ consists of a complex of ideas, activities and technologies that allow them to survive.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. accommodation     2. innovation     3. simplicity     4. behavior      5. adaptation      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Those features of a culture that play a part in the society’s way of making its living are called its _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. subsistence indicators      2. culture core      3. cultural theme     4. cultural boundaries     5. culture area     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The extensive form of horticulture in which the natural vegetation is cut, the slash is subsequently burned, and crops then planted among the ashes is known as  _______________, which is also called slash-and-burn farming.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. complex farming     2. simple agronomy     3. intensive agriculture      4. swidden farming      5. extensive cultivation     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The concept that states humans are moving forward to a better, more advanced stage in their cultural development is called _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. success     2. convergence     3. evolution     4. advancement      5. progress      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The oldest and most universal mode of subsistence is _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. food foraging      2. pastoralism     3. fishing     4. hunting     5. farming     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The long history of human involvement in hunting and gathering as a mode of cultural adaptation probably helped to shape ______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. a strong sense of competition which is useful in modern urban-industrial society      2. a deep-rooted sense of aggressiveness which served as a form of pre-adaptation to the jungle of today’s cities     3. the dominating and aggressive temperament of males     4. the submissive and non-aggressive temperament of females     5. none of the above      Score: 0/0.5
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	The _______________ way of life is the oldest and most universal type of human adaptation.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. horticultural     2. food-producing     3. pastoral      4. food-foraging      5. urban     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	_______________ refers to the number of people that can be supported by the available resources at a given level of technology.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. Ecosystem     2. Cultural ecology      3. Carrying capacity      4. Pre-adaptation     5. Culture core     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	All of the societies that occupied the culture area of the Great Plains followed a similar pattern of life. Which of the following describes this culture area?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. There were 31 politically independent tribes.     2. All of these societies were dependent on the buffalo for food, clothing and shelter.     3. The tribes were organized into warrior societies in which individuals gained prestige from hunting and fighting.     4. Their caps were arranged in a distinctive circular pattern.      5. All of the above describe the culture area of the Great Plains.      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	In what country do we find the Mekranoti?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. Brazil      2. Australia     3. Paraguay     4. Namibia     5. Venezuela     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	_______________ are food producers who specialize in animal husbandry, and who consider their way of life to be ideal and central to defining their identities.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. Horticulturalists      2. Pastoralists      3. Food foragers     4. Intensive agriculturalists     5. Industrialists     Score: 0.5/0.5