Unit 6 Review

What did Darwin notice about animals and their habitats?

• They are well suited to their environment

• They seemed out of place

• They are well adapted to all environments

• They changed as their environments changed

What was the major difference between the finches observed by Darwin?

• Their beaks

• Their wings

• Their colorations

• Their eyes

How are fossils used?

• They show how characters change over time

• They show how characters remain the same over time

• They explain how organisms respond to their environment

Upon observing the different species of tortoises in the Galapagos, Darwin came up with what hypothesis?

• Natural Selection

• Inheritance of acquired characterists

• Deep time

• Gradualism

What did Hutton and Lyell say about the earth?

• It was extremely old and its processes have occurred continuously

• It was young and its processes have occurred continuously

• It was extremely old and its processes have changed throughout time

• It was young and its processes have changed throughout time

What was Lamarck’s hypothesis about how evolution worked?

• Natural Selection

• Deep time

• Inheritance of acquired characteristics

• Gradualism

What did Darwin say about Malthus’s ideas about human population?

• They only applied to people

• They applied to all organisms

• They applied to birds

• They were wrong

What is the definition of artificial selection?

• Humans select for the traits they find most beneficial

• Nature selects for the traits it finds most beneficial

What is fitness?

• Being fast and strong

• Ability to survive and reproduce

• Being able to stay alive

• Avoiding having children

What would cause 2 unrelated organisms to develop similar characteristics

• Similar environments

• Similar predators

• Similar prey

• Too much Taco Bell