5.1 & 5.2 Darwin/NS

All are true of Charles Darwin except:

• He was a British Naturalist.

• He traveled on the HMS Beagle for 5 years.

• He was the first to discover fossils.

• He developed his theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin job was a ____________ a person who observes and studies the natural world.

• observationalist
• botanist
• naturalist
• chemist

I formed the theory of evolution by natural selection after my research of various species of finches on the Galápagos Islands. Who am I?

• James Hutton

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Lyell

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

What did Darwin notice about the Galapagos Island finches that caused him to develop his theory of evolution by natural selection?

• The birds' wings were different shaped to help them fly and swim.
• The birds' feathers blended in with their environment.
• The birds' feet had extra toes to help them scratch for food.
• The birds' beaks were shaped differently. Their beaks were shaped so they could eat whatever food was available on each island.

What was the name of the ship Darwin sailed on?

• HMS Poodle
• HMS Labrador
• HMS Beagle 
• HMS Terrier 

What chain of islands were significant to Darwin's theory of evolution?

• Caimain
• Galapagos 
• Bahamas
• West Indies 

Darwin noted that plant and animal breeders would breed only the largest hogs, the fastest horses, or the cows that produced the most milk. Darwin termed this process ______________ selection.

• Natural
• Formal
• Traditional
• Artificial 

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

What did Hutton and Lyell propose about the processes that changed the earth in the past?

• They said that the earth has not changed.
• They said new processes are changing the earth today.
• They said that the same processes that are changing the earth today changed the earth in the past.
• They said the earth was 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 traits that could be passed on to offspring.