Adaptive Radiation

What are the situations that cause adaptive radiation? [You can choose multiple options]

• Colonizing species' arrival at an island

• Lack of competition

• Increased number of predators

• Uninhabitable weather

Placentals and Australian marsupials show (a)   evolution

Bandicoot and Wombat have evolved from marsupial radiation.

• True

• False

In Australia, Placentals Bobcat shows resemblance to the marsupial ____________.

• Spotted Cuscus

• Tasmanian Cat

• Bengal Tiger

• Tasmanian Wolf

The process by which organisms with different evolutionary history evolve similar phenotypic adaptations in response to a common environmental challenge, is called

• Natural selection

• Convergent evolution

• Divergent evolution

• Adaptive radiation

What was observed in the finches of the Galapagos Islands?

• different species on different islands

• all species on one of the islands

• the same species as North America

• identical species on all the islands

This scientist developed the theory of evolution as he studied the finches.

• Charles Darwin

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

• Marie Curie

What organ differs in each finch?

• Feathers

• Claw

• Beak

• Fore-limbs

Why does Australia have marsupial radiation? [You can choose multiple options]

• Different geographical terrains

• Different weather conditions

• Availability of various forms of food

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