Vocabulary
Ability to alter behavior and to innovate, finding new ways of doing things.
What is Adaptation?
The reason bipedalism was an important trait in early hominins.
What is the ability to carry food and tools over long distances, consistently being able to move away from harsh environments?
One question scientists were able to answer by studying Lucy's remains.
What is did early hominins walk upright?
Modern scientists believe the universe is this age.
Most traditional Creation narratives have this in common.
What is the belief humans came into existence fully formed, at a single moment, as did other forms of life?
The family, in scientific classification, that includes gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans.
What are Hominids?
The emergence of throwing gave this advantage to hominins.
What is the ability to kill animals from a distance?
What is they are directly connected to humans genetically and biologically, as it is believed humans emerged from this group?
Most scientists believe that the human sub-group ________ split off from other apes between ________ years ago.
What are Hominins and 5-7 million years?
An example of how technology can change culture.
What is it can change how people communicate, share ideas, and access information?
Process by which species of plants and animals change overtime.
What is Evolution?
New bone structures supported long-distance walking and running in early hominins.
What is changes to the pelvis and spine helped balance the body to make travel more efficient?
This was the significance of early hominins' cognitive development in their evolutionary success.
What is it led to the ability to store and analyze information, learn, and remember?
The significance of adaptation for the survival of a species.
What is it allows a species to survive, reproduce, and maintain its population when faced with changing environmental conditions?
Settled agriculture changed the way people organized their societies.
What is by leading to permanent settlements, social stratification, and more complex political structures?
A scientific classification for modern humans and our now-extinct ancestors, including Australopithecus Afarensis.
What are Hominins?
This best explains how climate change influenced the adaptation of early hominins.
What is the expansion of open grasslands due to climate fluctuations encouraged bipedalism, which improved energy efficiency and the ability to see predators?
Fossilized teeth can tell many things to scientists about the diet of early hominins.
What are tooth shape, size, and wear patterns show whether hominins ate mostly plants, meat, hard foods, or soft foods?
The following assertion came from a modern scientific creation narrative.
What is human beings evolved over millions of years through a series of changes caused by natural selection?
The key elements of Creation narratives.
What are explaining origins using symbolic characters or events, placing humans in a central role, teaching moral lessons, and helping people understand their culture's identity and values?
Walking on two legs, thereby freeing hands and arms to carry objects such as weapons and tools; one of several traits that distinguished hominins.
What is bipedalism?
List the five traits that evolved over several million years that distinguished hominins from hominids.
What are bipedalism, tool usage, larger brains, language, and larger bodies?
The following scenario is most likely to cause a burst of evolutionary change.
What is a dramatic rupture of Earth's crust leading to significant environmental changes?
Two (2) modern scientific discoveries challenged traditional Creation narratives.
What are modern scientific studies show that the universe is roughly 13.8 billion years old, and the theory of evolution demonstrates that modern humans share a common ancestor and evolved over millions of years?
This acronym makes up all of the components of what makes a civilization.
What is G.R.A.P.E.S.?