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Evolution & Speciation

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When human being make the choice to breed certain organisms to select for a given traits.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

c)

Sexual Selection

2.

An owl swooping down and capturing an albino/white mouse from a nest leaving other more well blended mice behind is an example of...

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

c)

Sexual Selection

3.

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.

a)

Natural selection

b)

Artificial selection

c)

Sexual selection

4.

This is a graph of a normal distribution pattern of phenotypes within a population? Which show a disruptive?

a)

None of these

b)
c)
d)
5.

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?

a)

Disruptive

b)

Stabilizing

c)

Directional

6.

Make giant cuttlefish try to intimidate each other by

a)

making wicked body patterns and displays

b)

ignoring blending in with the environment

c)

engage in wrestling matches

d)

squirting out ink

e)

all of the above

7.

Small male cuttlefish mate with females more successfully.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Male Giant Cuttlefish exchange semen/sperm via

a)

their arms/tentacles

b)

their penis

c)

thier eyes

d)

their backs

9.

Giant Cuttlefish only have 1 mating season.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

A change to the gene pool of a population is called.

a)

Speciation

b)

Natural selection

c)

Evolution

d)

Protein synthesis

11.

Speciation of the Kalibab squirrel population resulted from

a)

behavioral isolation

b)

gamete isolation

c)

habitat isolation

d)

geographical isolation

12.

Speciation of meadowlark populations resulted from

a)

behavioral isolation

b)

gamete isolation

c)

habitat isolation

d)

mechanical isolation

13.

Speciation occured in the Red legged frog population as a result of

a)

behavioral isolation

b)

temporal isolation

c)

gamete isolation

d)

geographical isolation

14.

Organisms most suited to their environments will survive and reproduce fertile offspring is the key to natural selection.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

R-selected organisms like fish, frogs , and oak trees will over-reproduce in order to ensure some of their offspring survive.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

K-selected organisms like elephants and gorillas have fewer offspring because they spend their own energy nurturing and taking care of them.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

There is always variation within a population.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Evolution is a change in a

a)

Species

b)

Population

c)

Community

d)

Ecosystem

19.

The most accurate way to determine how closely related organism are to each other is to compare

a)
b)
c)
d)
20.

What terms describes the process when one ancestral species evolves into many descendant

species

a)

Population

b)

Adaptive radiation

c)

Spreading

d)

Natural selection

21.

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.

a)

species

b)

population

c)

genus

d)

class

22.

Great danes and bulldogs are the same species.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Horses and mules are the same species.

a)

True

b)

False