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Worksheets15-2 Darwin's Ideas
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Charles Lyell's idea that the same natural laws and processes that shape the Earth today have shaped Earth in the past, and apply everywhere in the universe:
Gradualism
Uniformitarianism
Theory of Evolution
Natural Selection
James Hutton's idea that changes to the Earth are slow and continuous in nature and happens over deep time (as opposed to in rapid, catastrophic steps):
Gradualism
Uniformitarianism
Theory of Evolution
Natural Selection
Which is not an example of uniformitarianism:
Formation of islands due to volcanic eruption
Deposition of soil by glacial retreat
Spontaneous generation of brand-new species
Erosion of soil by river flooding
_______ believed that organisms develop traits needed for survival and that traits that were unused would become weaker and gradually disappear.
Darwin
Lamarck
Hutton
Malthus
Who developed one of the first theories of evolution, the Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics?
Malthus
Hutton
Lyell
Lamarck
Who believed the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the Earth to produce subsistence for man?
Malthus
Thanos
Darwin
Lamarck
Charles Darwin was the first scientist to propose a theory of evolution.
True
False
Darwin's theory to explain evolution depends on the condition that the Earth is many billions of years old.
True
False
According to Malthus, human populations increase _________ while resources like food increase __________.
exponentially, linearly
linearly, exponentially
geometrically, algebraically
algebraically, arithmetically
According to the Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics, the development or loss of characteristics is related to that characteristic's
use or disuse
mutation
selection
creation
