Summative Assessment #8 Review Evolution, Adaptations, Classification, & Succession

Which feature helps an animal hide from other animals?

• looking like a dangerous animal
• being the same color as the place it lives (camoflauge)
• having sharp claws or a strong shel
• having only a few young and caring for them

A giraffe has a long neck in order to better reach leaves to eat.  This is an example of _____. 

• an adaptation
• environment
• response
• stimulus

Natural disasters such as flooding and tornadoes are linked to ________________.

• primary
• secondary
• old field
• ecosystem

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After a forest fire, an ecosystem would start regrowth through -

• primary succession
• secondary succession
• climax community
• limiting factors

succession that occurs in an area with no soil

• ecological succession 
• primary succession 
• secondary succession
• pioneer speciles

Fossil records can be studied to determine how organisms change through time. Which of the following methods for studying organisms could LEAST likely be accomplished by studying fossil record?

• determining when extinction of species occurred

• comparing homologous structures of organisms

• comparing sleep patterns of organisms

• dating organisms by the relative order of their fossils

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Which of the following is evidence to support the idea that two different species might have a common ancestor?

• Their methods of respiration are alike

• They use the same means of locomotion

• Their fossils were discovered in the same location

• Many of their genes are the same.

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Fossils help scientists classify extinct species and determine their relationships to current species. Fossils provide the MOST information about extinct species--

• structures

• habitats

• metabolism

• reproduction

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Natural selection results in--

• genetic mutations in the population

• changes in the environment

• changes in the frequency of certain alleles in the population

• organism producing more offspring

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Animals that are the least specialized generally stand the best chance of survival when the environment suddenly and drastically changed because they are able to--

• mutate rapidly

• move from place to place

• reproduce abundantly

• adapt to different conditions

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