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James Hutton's and Charles Lyell's work suggests that

• Earth is several million years old
• Earth is several thousand years old
• All fossils were formed in the last 100 years
• All rocks on Earth contain fossils

What did Charles Darwin learn from reading the work of James Hutton and Charles Lyell?

• Earth is young
• Earth is unchanging
• Earth has had enough time for evolution
• Earth is not spinning

Which is a major concept included in Lamarck's evolutionary hypothesis?

• Change is the result of survival of the fittest
• Body structures can change according to certain actions of the organism
• A small population size decreases the rate of evolution
• Artificial selection is the basis for evolution

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
• the actions of organisms as they use or fail to use body structures
• an unchanging local environment
• the natural variations already presents within the population of organisms

Hutton proposed that the earth was old because...

• The processes that work to change the earth's surface happen VERY slowly.
• The processes that work to change the earth's surface happen very fast.
• The earth never changes.
• The earth is very young.

What did Lamarck propose regarding an organisms traits?

• Traits are not passed down to offspring.
• Traits cannot be acquired in an organisms lifetime.
• Traits belong to the parental generation not the offspring.
• Organisms acquired or lost traits be selective use or disuse.

The idea that war, starvation, and disease could prevent the endless growth of human populations was presented by

• Charles Darwin
• Jean-Baptisite Lamarck
• Thomas Malthus
• Charles Lyell

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What do we call change over time?

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Natural Variation
• Speciation

Charles Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment 

• diversity.
• evolution.
• adaptation. 
•  fitness.

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Whose theory included "acquired traits" such as a giraffe needing a long neck so they stretch it over time?

• Darwin
• Lamarck