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Unit 5 Review

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do biomass pyramids show?

a)

Food chain

b)

Meghan's head

c)

Animals

d)

Total amount of living tissue at each trophic level

2.

What do ecological pyramids show?

a)

Consumers

b)

Producers

c)

Consumers & Producers

d)

Chemical energy

e)

Food Chain

3.

What do Cladograms show?

a)

Evolution

b)

How organisms are related

c)

Trees

d)

Pictures of species

4.

Which of the following is a type of selection?

a)

Directional

b)

Varional

c)

Disease

d)

Homozygous

5.

Linnaeus was called the Father of Taxonomy

a)

True

b)

False

6.

What theory did Charles Darwin create?

a)

Theory of growth

b)

Theory of reduction

c)

Theory of evolution

d)

Theory of shrinkage

7.

Which one of these is organized from broadest to most defined?

a)

Kingdom, phylum, order, genus, family, class, species

b)

Class, family, genus, kingdom, order, phylum, species

c)

Kingdom, class, family, species, phylum, genus, order

d)

Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

8.

Natural Selection causes the weakest to survive.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

In stabilizing selection the peak of the graph_____.

a)

Is near the right

b)

Is in the middle

c)

Is near the left

d)

Splits into two groups

10.

Speciation is _______________.

a)

The splitting of one species into two species

b)

The combination of two species into one species

c)

The total extinction of one species

d)

The creation of a new species in a lab

11.

Natural variation is differences among individuals of a species

a)

True

b)

False

12.

__________ is the arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on their similarities

a)

Classification

b)

Naming

c)

Species

d)

Grouping

13.

Over time natural selection results in

a)

Death

b)

Less populated areas

c)

Changes in inherited characteristics of a population

d)

More species

14.

The first taxonomist was

a)

John Ray

b)

Aristotle

c)

Linnaeus

d)

Organisms

15.

Which is the broadest taxon

a)

Domain

b)

Class

c)

Kingdom

d)

Phylum

16.

Allele frequencies of gene pool will stay the same IF

a)

No mutations

b)

No gene flow

c)

Random mating

d)

No selection

e)

All of these

17.

Genetic drift means changes in allele frequencies of a gene pool due to chance

a)

True

b)

False

18.

What is gene flow?

a)

Changes in a population’s genetics by chance

b)

Genetic changes from organisms from another population

c)

Prevention of certain genotypes from entering another population

d)

Changes in a population’s genetics by humans

19.

What is the Founder effect?

a)

When a subgroup from a population that creates a new population

b)

When a certain genotype succeeds another

c)

When a disaster happens preventing certain genotypes from entering another population

d)

When a population’s genetics change by chance

20.

Change in gene frequency in a population over time is

a)

a gene pool

b)

microevolution

c)

allelic frequency

d)

none of these

21.

Plantae is multicellular

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Who came up with the idea of taxonomy?

a)

Carolus Linnaeus

b)

Hillary Clinton

c)

Martin Luther King Jr

d)

Justin Bieber

23.

Which two are unicellular prokaryotes?

a)

Archaea & Bacteria

b)

Bacteria & Plantae

c)

Archaea & Plantae

d)

Bacteria & Fungi

24.

What do you call a diagram showing how organisms are related?

a)

Dichotomous Key

b)

Histogram

c)

Cladogram

d)

Food web

25.

What did Charles Darwin discover?

a)

Wakanda

b)

Evidence of Evolution

c)

The Philosopher's Stone

d)

The Fountain of Youth

26.

What is Bottlenecking Event?

a)

Not enough animals

b)

an event destroying most of the population

c)

water bottles getting stuck on animals

d)

too much Fortnite

27.

What is evolution?

a)

Change in a species over time

b)

Change in the environment over time

c)

Water pollution

d)

None of these

28.

What is the Hardy-Weinberg equation

a)

p2 + q2 = 1

b)

p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1

c)

2pq = 1

d)

p2 + 2pq + q2 = 100

29.

In the Hardy-Weinberg equation (p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1), what does p represent

a)

a species

b)

a dominant allele frequency

c)

a recessive allele frequency

d)

a neutral allele frequency

30.

In the Hardy-Weinberg equation (p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1), what does 2pq represent

a)

the number of heterozygous individuals

b)

a dominant allele frequency

c)

a recessive allele frequency

d)

the number of homozygous individuals

31.

The percentage of the homozygous recessive genotype (aa) is 36%. Using that 36% and the Hardy-Weinberg equation (p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1), calculate the frequency of the 'a' allele.

a)

0.36

b)

0.5

c)

0.6

d)

1

32.

Which of the following could NOT be a characteristic of a eukaryote

a)

multicellular

b)

has a nucleus

c)

has cell organelles

d)

bacteria

33.

A human arm, wing of a bat, and leg of a cat are examples of

a)

weird body parts

b)

ingredients for spells

c)

homologous structures

d)

heterozygous structures

34.

Darwinian fitness is greatest in an organism that

a)

can run the fastest

b)

lives the longest

c)

has the most grandkids

d)

consumes the most

35.

Which of the following has a cell wall made of chitin?

a)

Plants

b)

Animals

c)

Fungi

d)

Protists

36.

Which of the following is an example of directional selection?

a)

A bird species with two different color patterns

b)

A mammal that usually has two pups per litter

c)

Average height of a tree species becoming taller over time

d)

Quails with long tails mating more frequently than quails with short tails

37.

Which of the following is an example of stabilizing selection?

a)

A bird species with two different color patterns

b)

average birth weight for pigs is 6kg

c)

Average height of a tree species becoming taller over time

d)

Quails with long tails mating more frequently than quails with short tails

38.

Which of the following is an example of sexual selection?

a)

A bird species with two different color patterns

b)

average birth weight for pigs is 6kg

c)

Average height of a tree species becoming taller over time

d)

Quails with long tails mating more frequently than quails with short tails

39.

Which of the following is an example of disruptive selection?

a)

A moth species with two different color patterns

b)

average birth weight for pigs is 6kg

c)

Average height of a tree species becoming taller over time

d)

Quails with long tails mating more frequently than quails with short tails

40.

Information about which of the following is the most specific?

a)

Phylum

b)

Order

c)

Family

d)

Genus

e)

Species

41.

Gene flow happens between

a)

Males and females

b)

Individuals

c)

Populations

d)

Species

e)

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez

42.

A tool to help you identify species that consists of questions (usually yes or no) is called

a)

annoying

b)

a quizizz

c)

a dichotomous key

d)

a cladogram