AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE- ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY

What is is the study of how and why plants and animals live where they do?

• Evolution

• Adaptive Radiation

• Biogeography

• Biogeology

A scientist puts 100 houseflies in a sealed container; then sprays an insecticide into the container.  Ninety-six of the flies die.  Four survive.  The scientist lets the survivors mate and produce offspring, then repeats the experiment with 100 offspring.  Fifty-six of them survive the spray.  This experimental result is evidence of – 

• adaptive radiation 
• speciation
• natural selection
• extinction

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Steven Hawking
• Albert Einstein
• Charles Darwin
• Isaac Newton

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Primates grow slowly and have fewer offspring because...

• Large brains take longer to develop

• They are larger than most other mammals

• Primates have color vision and grasping hands

• Primates are just cool like that

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What is evolution?

• When animals move to warmer climates in the winter

• How organisms change across many generations

• The migration of different species through the seasons

• Ancient rock layers and the fossils they contain

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Lemurs are found on the island of:

• Australia

• Sulawesi

• New Guinea

• Madagascar

Ecosystem services

• are the processes by which life-supporting resources are produced.
• indicate the current state of the environment.
• are valued for their beauty.
• refer to abiotic features of the environment.

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The movement of organisms from one place to another is called ______________________.

• dispersal

• transition

• spread

• drift

Which is NOT a factor in the theory of island biogeography?

• Islands farther from the continent have more species due to increased speciation
• dispersing species are more likely to find a large habitat
• islands can also be isolated areas within a continent
• larger habitats contain a larger range of environmental conditions