Darwin and Natural Selection

When did Charles Darwin live? 

• 1600s
• 1700s
• 1800s
• 1900s

Darwin developed his theory of natural selection by the studying the unique life on this chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean near South America.

• the Andouilles

• the Hawaiian Islands

• the Galapagos Islands

• the Aleutian Islands

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What did Charles Darwin learn about the finch populations of the Galapagos Islands?

• Different islands had different species of finches.

• All species were on one of the islands

• There were identical species on all the islands

• There were the same species as South America

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The finches of the Galapagos islands different in what way and for what reason?

• size of body, size of trees

• location on specific islands, amount of water

• coloration. types of predators

• beak shape, type of food available

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Which of the following is a term for a group of similar organisms that can reproduce fertile offspring?

• individual
• population
• species
• fossil

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The difference in the physical traits of individuals within the same population is called a(n)

• change

• adaption

• species

• variation

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Genetic variation can arise from a random change in the DNA of a gene.  The change is called a(n)

• mutation
• gene flow
• gene pool
• allele

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Intermediate fossil forms are important evidence of evolution because they show

• how organisms change over time
• how animals behaved in their environments
• how the embryos of organisms develop
• molecular homologies

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Darwin noticed that many organisms seemed well suited to

• being preserved as fossils.

• providing humans with food.

• surviving in the environments in which they lived.

• swimming from South America to the Galápagos Islands.

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

• diversity.

• evolution.

• adaptation.

• fitness.

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