Influences on Darwin

Influences of Darwin

Multiple Choice

What did Charles Lyell propose about the Earth?

• human populations grow faster than the resources they depend on. When populations become too large, famine and disease break out. In the end, this keeps populations in check by killing off the weakest members.

• organisms altered their behavior in response to environmental change. Their changed behavior, in turn, modified their organs, and their offspring inherited those "improved" structures.

• Gradual geological processes have shaped the Earth's surface making Earth much older than believed.

Multiple Choice

Who in Darwin's family had the greatest influence on his theory of evolution by natural selection

• His father

• His grandfather

• His Aunt

• His Mother

Multiple Choice

Lamarck’s ideas about evolution include the concept that differences among the traits of organisms arise as a result of

• continual increases in population size.

• an unchanging local environment.

• the actions of organisms as they use or fail to use body structures.

• the natural variations already present within the population of organisms.

Multiple Choice

What scientist explains that the geological occurrences that happened in the past and ARE STILL HAPPENING today?

• James Hutton

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wallace

• Charles Lyell

Open Ended

In 2-3 sentences, explain Charles Lyell's impact on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection

Multiple Choice

The economist Thomas Malthus suggested that

• without certain checks on population size, there would soon be insufficient food for the growing human population.

• in the human population, people die faster than babies are born.

• in the 1700s, England needed more housing.

• the majority of a species’ offspring die.

Multiple Choice

Both Darwin and Wallace were naturalists.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Both Darwin and Wallace were interested in and studied evolution by means of natural selection at the same time.

• True

• False

Open Ended

Explain the process of Artificial Selection using domesticated cats in your explanation.