Chapter 7: Primates Quiz

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  1. 1. The form that something takes is called

  2. 2. __________________ created a taxonomy of life based on morphology

  3. 3. Primates trends include

  4. 4. All primates have true opposable thumbs.

  5. 5. Low ranking baboons with few social connections have

  6. 6. Primates use their large complex brains for

  7. 7. All ____________ live on Madagascar and all are threatened.

  8. 8. Lemurs retain more features of earlier fossil primates than do monkeys and apes.

  9. 9. Lemurs use _____________ to self-medicate.

  10. 10. Only New World Monkeys have prehensile tails.

  11. 11. Old World monkeys live in Africa and South A.sia

  12. 12. Gibbons move by

  13. 13. The largest ape is the

  14. 14. The only breeding male in a gorilla troop is called a

  15. 15. Chimpanzees use the most tools of any primate.

  16. 16. Male chimpanzees are able to rise through the dominance hierarchy by

  17. 17. The cultural relationship relationship between humans and other primates is called

  18. 18. Bonobos use ______ to alleviate social tension.

  19. 19. Gorillas are mainly carnivores.

  20. 20. Chimpanzees and gorillas are

  21. 21. At Virunga National Park

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