DNR What Darwin Never Knew Video Questions

Darwin was offered a position on the _____whose mission was to survey the waters around South America

• HMS Titanic

• USS Midway

• HMS Beagle

• USS Snoopy

Darwin's first important discovery was made in ______ where he found fossils of extinct mammals.

• the Galapagos

• Argentina

• Chile

• London

Home to animals found no-where else on earth, the _____ are where Darwin made his most important discoveries.

• Greater Antilles

• Falkland Islands

• Philippines

• Galapagos

The ___ of the giant tortoises differed depended upon which island they lived

• size

• shell

• height

• beak shape

Depending on the island, the finches differed in the type of ____

• feathers

• beak

• bird song

• nest

Darwin realized that species _____

• change

• remain the same

• have identical DNA

• replicate

Darwin studied dog breeders and how specific traits were selected. He then wondered if ______________ could be going on in life.

• artificial selection

• natural selection

• continuous mutation

• vestigial variation

The pattern in nature that Darwin saw was that the creatures that survived were those best adapted to the specific _____ in which they lived.

• enviroment

• environment

• enviriment

• envorment

The Galapagos finches have different beaks because the finches used their beaks as _____ depending on the type of food they ate.

• plates

• weapons

• defense mechanisms

• tools

Change in nature started with ______

• variation

• speciation

• natural selection

• extinction