Biology S1 Final Review

A baby song bird hatches from its egg with both parent songbirds watching.

• All living things reproduce

• All living things respond to their environment (stimuli)

• All living things use energy

• All living things grow

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When you step out into the cold, your body shivers in order to keep its temperature at 98.6F.

• All living things use energy

• All living things contain cells

• All living things respond to their environment (stimuli)

• All living things grow

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What is a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Overproduction

• Descent with Modification

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Which of the following finch beaks is adapted for eating hard seeds?

• The long, curved beak

• The short, curved beak

• The long, thin beak

• The short, thick beak

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Who came up with the theory of evolution through natural selection?

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Charles Darwin

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Principal Watson

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What did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations on the Galapagos Islands?

• Different species of finches lived on the different islands.

• All the species of finches lived on one island.

• Identical species of finches lived on the different islands.

• Finches did not live on the Galapagos Islands.

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The white feathers of a snowy owl allow it to blend in with its environment during the snowy, winter months. This is an example of:

• variation.

• overproduction.

• adaptation.

• descent with modification.

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What does "the fittest" mean in evolution?

• The strongest

• The longest lived

• The fastest

• The most reproductively successful

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

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Study of embryos of various organisms to show a common ancestor because of similarities in development

• natural selection
• embryology
• speciation
• evolution

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