Evolution

What are fossils?

• mystical rock formations form from magma

• imprints or remains of organisms found in rock

• the top layer of strata

• dead stars that fall from the sky

The emergence of a new species is __________.

• uniformitarianism
• speciation
• catatrophism
• extinction

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Survival depends on inherited traits and success is measured by reproduction

• artificial selection
• theory of evolution
• catatrophe selection
• theory of revolution

Any inherited characteristic that increases an organisms chance of survival is a(n)

• fitness
• adaptation
• arm
• teeth

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Charles Darwin observed nature on these islands

• Alutians
• Galapagos
• Canary
• Caribbean

The ability to survive in a given environment is known as

• adaptation
• fitness
• ability
• evolution

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This type of selection favors one extreme

• directional

• stabilizing

• disruptive

• no selection

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A species is defined as

• organisms that look alike
• organisms that act similar
• organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
• organisms that look and act similar

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When members of two similar populations can no longer interbreed they are considered

• different species

• barely isolated

• geographically isolated

• behaviorally isolated

This type of isolation is caused by mating at different times

• reproductive
• temporal
• behavioral
• geographic