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WorksheetsEvolution & Speciation
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 11mins
When human being make the choice to breed certain organisms to select for a given traits.
Natural Selection
Artificial Selection
Sexual Selection
An owl swooping down and capturing an albino/white mouse from a nest leaving other more well blended mice behind is an example of...
Natural Selection
Artificial Selection
Sexual Selection
Male blue footed boobie birds create complex dances in order to get the females to choose them to mate with. This behavior is essential for ........ to occur.
Natural selection
Artificial selection
Sexual selection
This is a graph of a normal distribution pattern of phenotypes within a population? Which show a disruptive?
None of these
During the industrial revolution, air pollution turned the tree bark black from the soot. All of the birds now hunted down and killed all the white colored moths and all that remained were dark winged moths. What shift in distribution pattern would occur?
Disruptive
Stabilizing
Directional
Make giant cuttlefish try to intimidate each other by
making wicked body patterns and displays
ignoring blending in with the environment
engage in wrestling matches
squirting out ink
all of the above
Small male cuttlefish mate with females more successfully.
True
False
Male Giant Cuttlefish exchange semen/sperm via
their arms/tentacles
their penis
thier eyes
their backs
Giant Cuttlefish only have 1 mating season.
True
False
A change to the gene pool of a population is called.
Speciation
Natural selection
Evolution
Protein synthesis
Speciation of the Kalibab squirrel population resulted from
behavioral isolation
gamete isolation
habitat isolation
geographical isolation
Speciation of meadowlark populations resulted from
behavioral isolation
gamete isolation
habitat isolation
mechanical isolation
Speciation occured in the Red legged frog population as a result of
behavioral isolation
temporal isolation
gamete isolation
geographical isolation
Organisms most suited to their environments will survive and reproduce fertile offspring is the key to natural selection.
True
False
R-selected organisms like fish, frogs , and oak trees will over-reproduce in order to ensure some of their offspring survive.
True
False
K-selected organisms like elephants and gorillas have fewer offspring because they spend their own energy nurturing and taking care of them.
True
False
There is always variation within a population.
True
False
Evolution is a change in a
Species
Population
Community
Ecosystem
The most accurate way to determine how closely related organism are to each other is to compare
What terms describes the process when one ancestral species evolves into many descendant
species
Population
Adaptive radiation
Spreading
Natural selection
A liger is a crossbreed of a tiger and a lion. The babies have traits of both parents but they are all sterile. This means they can't have their own babies. This means lions and tigers are not the same.
species
population
genus
class
Great danes and bulldogs are the same species.
True
False
Horses and mules are the same species.
True
False
