Biogeography, Succession & Biome Characteristics

What is the study of the distribution of species in geographic space and through time?

• biology
• biogeography
• geography
• geology

What is the major type of evidence scientists used to determine New World Monkeys, Old World Monkeys, and Great Apes had the same ancient ancestor?

• Biogeography: The splitting of the continents
• Biochemistry: DNA sequencing
• Fossil Record
• Anatomy

Darwin observed while visiting the Galapagos Islands:

• Finches of the same species
• Fossils of closely related mollusks
• Mockingbirds with different traits
• Tortoises with varying shell sizes

An earthquake causes an ocean channel to open and separate an island into two.  How are the species in each section now isolated?

• geographic isolation
• behavioral isolation
• disruptive selection
• temporal isolation

What is geographic isolation?

• Members of a population live together within an geographic boundary
• Members of a population may become isolated from one another by geographic boundaries
• An isolation that is geographic
• None of these

What is the goal of the pioneer species in primary succession?

• To kill the dead materials after a disaster
• To rebuild soil
• To feed Johnny
• To put fresh oxygen into the air

The separation of populations by barriers such as rivers, mountains, or bodies of water is called

• temporal isolation
• geographic isolation
•  behavioral isolation
• genetic equilibrium

What is the order of succession shown in this figure?

• A, B, C, D
• B, A, D, C
• C, D, A, B
• D, A, B, C

What type of succession is shown going from figure A to figure B?

• primary succession
• ecological succession
• secondary succession
• intermediate

The picture shows what type of succession?

• primary
• secondary
• tertiary
• quaternary