Chapter 15 Darwins Theory Of Evolution
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- 1.What animals did darwin observed?
- 2.Nature provided the variation and humans selected the useful ones is called __________ ___________
- 3.A well supported testabloe explaination that have occured in the natural world is a ____________________
- 4.What islands did darwin visited that had the most changes?
- 5.What is natural selection?
- 6.During his travels, darwin made numerous _________ and collected _________ that led him to propose a revolutionary hypothesis about the way _____ changes over time.
- A.
Experiments, specimens, plants
- B.
Observations, evidence, life
- C.
Observations, species, life
- D.
Hypthesis, evidence, evolution
- 7.Separate answers with a commamalthus reasoned that if the __________ p___________ continued to ________ unchecked, sooner or later there would be ____________ living __________ and __________ for everyone
- 8.What are fossils?
- 9.What is evolution?
- A.
Changes in inherited characteristics of a population that help increase the fitness of a species
- B.
Ability of animal to reproduce
- C.
Change over time where modern organisms have descended from ancient organism
- 10.What did lyell and hutton helped scientists recognize?
- A.
Earth is millions years old and the processes that changed earth in the past are still operating
- B.
Human population are growing and we will run out of supplies
- C.
Inheritance of traits could be acquired
- 11.
- A.
Animals changed over time because of natural selection
- B.
Organisms are not adapted to their environment
- C.
Selective use or disuse for a body part change lead to change in that organ when its passed on to the offspring
- 12.What are the three ideas of evolution?
- A.
Struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, and decent with modification
- B.
Fossil records, survival of the fittest, and geogrpaphic distribution of living things
- C.
Descent with modification , homologous body structures, and similarities in embryology
- 13.What is fitness
- A.
How healthy an organism is
- B.
The ability to adapt
- C.
The ability to fight
- D.
The ability to reproduce and survive
- 14.Over time natural selection results in _____ in the ________ characteristics of a population
- 15.These changes over time increase the _________ of a species in its environment
- 16.What are the four indirect evidence of evolution?
- 17.What book did darwin published with his ideas on evolution?
- A.
Essay on the principle of population
- B.
On the origin of species
- C.
Principles of geology
- 18.Who is another scientist that presented the idea of evolution around the same time as darwin
- A.
Hutton
- B.
Thomas malthus
- C.
Lamarck
- D.
Alfred wallace
- 19.What was the name of the name of darwin's voyage called?
- 20.Differences among individual of a species are referred to as
- A.
Natural variation
- B.
Fitness
- C.
Natural selection
- D.
Adaptation
- 21.What is speciation?
- 22.Fitness is a result of
- A.
Homologies
- B.
Common descent
- C.
Variation
- D.
Adaptation
- 23.Structures that have different mature forms but develop from the same embryonic tissue are
- 24.Describe three observations about animals in South America on the Galapagos islands
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