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Bio Quiz Prep: Evidence for Evolution

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 2hrs 0mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

True or False? The Galápagos Islands is a group of islands off the coast of North America and is a territory of Ecuador. (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Which ONE of the following is not true of Darwin's observations of tortoises on The Galápagos Islands? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

the different sized beaks allow for either crushing seeds or tearing vegetation

b)

domed tortoises have short necks and legs and live in areas with low vegetation

c)

saddle-backed tortoises have a high shell edge, allowing them to stretch their long necks

d)

showed evidence that tortoises can adapt to their environment

3.

Which ONE of the following is not true of Darwin's observations of finches on The Galápagos Islands? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

finches on certain Galápagos Islands live in different environments and have beaks of different sizes and shapes

b)

large cactus finch have thick beaks and can feed on large, hard seeds that require strength for crushing

c)

small tree finch have biting strength at the tips of their beaks for tearing vegetation

d)

large cactus finch have thick beaks and can tear vegetation much for its food source

4.

Which one of the following answer choices is NOT true of the term variation? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

the selective breeding of domesticated tortoises encourage the occurrence of desirable dome-shaped and saddle-backed shells respectively

b)

difference in physical traits of an individual from other individuals within the same species

c)

the heritable differences, or variations, that exist in a population are the basis for natural selection

d)

explains the differences of the same species of tortoises on different islands in the Galápagos Islands

5.

What answer choice best represents inherited characteristics of an organism that enhances its survival and reproduction in a specific environment? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

adaptation

b)

artificial selection

c)

heritability

d)

natural selection

e)

variation

6.

What answer choice best represents the selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals to encourage the occurrence of desirable traits? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

adaptation

b)

artificial selection

c)

heritability

d)

natural selection

e)

variation

7.

What answer choice best represents the the ability of a trait to be passed down from one generation to the next? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

adaptation

b)

artificial selection

c)

heritability

d)

natural selection

e)

variation

8.

What answer choice best represents a mechanism by which individuals have inherited beneficial adaptations produce more offspring on average than others do in nature? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

adaptation

b)

artificial selection

c)

heritability

d)

natural selection

e)

variation

9.

True or False? Population is a group of individuals of the different species that live in the same area and interbreed, producing fertile offspring. (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What answer choice best represents organisms having many offspring to raise the chance that some will survive? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

overproduction

b)

fitness

c)

inclusive fitness

d)

relative fitness

11.

What answer choice best represents a measure of the ability to survive and produce more offspring relative to other members of the population in a given environment? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

overproduction

b)

fitness

c)

inclusive fitness

d)

relative fitness

12.

What answer choice best represents the total effect an individual has on proliferating its genes by producing its own offspring and by providing aid that enables other close relatives to increase production of their offspring? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

overproduction

b)

fitness

c)

inclusive fitness

d)

relative fitness

13.

What answer choice best represents the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation, relative to the contributions of other individuals in the population? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

overproduction

b)

fitness

c)

inclusive fitness

d)

relative fitness

14.

What answer selection best represents that over time, natural selection will result in species with adaptations that are well suited for survival and reproduction in an environment? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

descent with modification

b)

homologous structures

c)

analogous structures

d)

vestigial structures

15.

What answer selection best represents the features that are similar in the structure but appear in different organisms and have different function? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

descent with modification

b)

homologous structures

c)

analogous structures

d)

vestigial structures

16.

What answer selection best represents the structures that perform a similar function, but are not similar in origin? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

descent with modification

b)

homologous structures

c)

analogous structures

d)

vestigial structures

17.

What answer selection best represents the remnants of organs or structures that had a function in an early ancestor? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

descent with modification

b)

homologous structures

c)

analogous structures

d)

vestigial structures

18.

What answer selection best describes the scientific study of the past and present geographic distribution of species? (From Lecture & Notes: Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands)

a)

biogeography

b)

microevolution

c)

mutation

d)

recombination

e)

genomics

19.

What is the name of the remains of the first face of America that was found in Mexico? (From Video Worksheet: First Face of America)

a)

Clovis

b)

Beringian

c)

Kennowick

d)

Naia

20.

What age best describes how long ago Naia roamed the Americas? (From Video Worksheet: First Face of America)

a)

16

b)

10,000

c)

12,000

d)

13,000

21.

What age best describes how old Naia was when she died? (From Video Worksheet: First Face of America)

a)

16

b)

10,000

c)

12,000

d)

13,000

22.

What answer choice is a primitive primate or prosimian of Southeast Asia? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

Tarsiers

b)

Galago

c)

Pygmy Marmoset

d)

Lemurs

e)

Monkeys

23.

What answer choice is a primitive primate is also known as a bush baby? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

Tarsiers

b)

Galago

c)

Pygmy Marmoset

d)

Lemurs

e)

Monkeys

24.

What answer choice is a primitive primate from Madagascar? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

Tarsiers

b)

Galago

c)

Pygmy Marmoset

d)

Lemurs

e)

Monkeys

25.

What answer choice is a tailed-primate includes baboons? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

Tarsiers

b)

Galago

c)

Pygmy Marmoset

d)

Lemurs

e)

Monkeys

26.

What answer choice represents the smallest primate in the world? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

Tarsiers

b)

Galago

c)

Pygmy Marmoset

d)

Lemurs

e)

Monkeys

27.

True or False? Human babies are weaker and more helpless than newborn apes. (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

True

b)

False

28.

True or False? Neanderthal bones indicate that between 1-4% of modern human DNA is from Neanderthals. (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

True

b)

False

29.

True or False? Civilizations started as farming / agriculture was invented plus the domestication of animals. (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

True

b)

False

30.

Which of the following answer choices best fits the definition of a keystone species? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

any organism that is the glue that holds a habitat together

b)

plants that help spread the energy of the sun

c)

animals that are affected by other organisms and their activity

d)

animals that have no significant contributions to an ecosystem

31.

Which of the following answer choices best fits the definition of a keystone predator? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

impact other predators as well as other animal and plant species farther down the food chain

b)

serve as a critical food source for predator populations

c)

create, modify, or maintain the landscape around them

d)

two or more species that engage in reciprocally vital interactions

e)

producers that provide a critical source of food and/or shelter for other species

32.

Which of the following answer choices best fits the definition of a keystone prey? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

impact other predators as well as other animal and plant species farther down the food chain

b)

serve as a critical food source for predator populations

c)

create, modify, or maintain the landscape around them

d)

two or more species that engage in reciprocally vital interactions

e)

producers that provide a critical source of food and/or shelter for other species

33.

Which of the following answer choices best fits the definition of a ecosystem engineer? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

impact other predators as well as other animal and plant species farther down the food chain

b)

serve as a critical food source for predator populations

c)

create, modify, or maintain the landscape around them

d)

two or more species that engage in reciprocally vital interactions

e)

producers that provide a critical source of food and/or shelter for other species

34.

Which of the following answer choices best fits the definition of a mutualist? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

impact other predators as well as other animal and plant species farther down the food chain

b)

serve as a critical food source for predator populations

c)

create, modify, or maintain the landscape around them

d)

two or more species that engage in reciprocally vital interactions

e)

producers that provide a critical source of food and/or shelter for other species

35.

Which of the following answer choices best fits the definition of a keystone plants? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

impact other predators as well as other animal and plant species farther down the food chain

b)

serve as a critical food source for predator populations

c)

create, modify, or maintain the landscape around them

d)

two or more species that engage in reciprocally vital interactions

e)

producers that provide a critical source of food and/or shelter for other species

36.

Which one of the following is not a broad cateogory keystone species? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

generalist

b)

keystone prey

c)

keystone predator

d)

keystone plant

e)

mutualist

37.

Which one of the following keystone examples play a vital role in the health of coastal kelp forests? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

starfish

b)

sea otters

c)

beavers

d)

wolves

e)

elephants

38.

Which one of the following keystone examples are ecosystem engineers that dramatically reshape the physical environment around them? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

prairie dogs

b)

bees

c)

beavers

d)

wolves

e)

elephants

39.

Which one of the following keystone examples are a top predator whose presence has a ripple effect on the rest of its ecosystem especially keeping the elk populations in check? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

prairie dogs

b)

bees

c)

beavers

d)

wolves

e)

elephants

40.

Which one of the following keystone examples consume as much as 300 pounds of vegetation per day? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

prairie dogs

b)

bees

c)

beavers

d)

wolves

e)

elephants

41.

Which one of the following keystone examples are a keystone species that supports some 130-plus other species in the grasslands of central and western North America? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

prairie dogs

b)

bees

c)

beavers

d)

wolves

e)

elephants

42.

Which one of the following keystone examples that support the reproduction of as much as 90 percent of the world’s flowering plants? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

prairie dogs

b)

bees

c)

beavers

d)

wolves

e)

elephants

43.

Which one of the following ecosystems / biomes is home to a vital keystone prey called Krill? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

ocean ecosystem

b)

desert biome

c)

taiga biome

d)

tundra biome

e)

tropical rainforest

44.

Which one of the following ecosystems / biomes is home to a vital keystone species called coral, which creates a habitat to support more than 300 invertebrates? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

ocean ecosystem

b)

desert biome

c)

taiga biome

d)

tundra biome

e)

tropical rainforest

45.

Which one of the following ecosystems / biomes is home to a vital keystone species called the tortoise of the Mojave, which burrows and protects other animals? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

ocean ecosystem

b)

desert biome

c)

taiga biome

d)

tundra biome

e)

tropical rainforest

46.

Which one of the following ecosystems / biomes is home to a vital keystone species called the snowshoe hare, which supports the dying Canadian lynx? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

ocean ecosystem

b)

desert biome

c)

taiga biome

d)

tundra biome

e)

tropical rainforest

47.

Which one of the following ecosystems / biomes is home to a vital keystone species called the lemming, which feeds predators like the arctic fox? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

ocean ecosystem

b)

desert biome

c)

taiga biome

d)

tundra biome

e)

tropical rainforest

48.

Which one of the following ecosystems / biomes is home to a vital keystone species called fig trees, which supports and feeds many organisms of its biome? (From Worksheet: Keystone Species 101)

a)

ocean ecosystem

b)

desert biome

c)

taiga biome

d)

tundra biome

e)

tropical rainforest

49.

What answer choice represents the content where all humans evolved? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

Africa

b)

Europe

c)

Asia

d)

North America

e)

South America

50.

Which one of the following answer choices is not a reason why modern human intelligence evolved? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

the use of tools

b)

use of hands with manual dexterity to observe things

c)

parental care

d)

possibly selection for problem solving in competition and cooperation for limited resources

e)

neoteny, which is the juvenile form of humans

51.

What answer choice best represents the species with features of an opposable thumb, bipedalism, large brain, tool making, and language for communication and writing? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

Homo sapien

b)

Homo neanderthalensis

c)

Homo floresiensis

d)

Homo erectus

e)

Homo habilis

52.

What answer choice best represents the species that is also known as "The Hobbit"? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

Homo sapien

b)

Homo neanderthalensis

c)

Homo floresiensis

d)

Homo erectus

e)

Homo habilis

53.

What answer choice best represents the species that was possibly eliminated by humans due to hybridization or being eliminated? (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

a)

Homo sapien

b)

Homo neanderthalensis

c)

Homo floresiensis

d)

Homo erectus

e)

Homo habilis

54.

(a)   is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs or legs. This allowed early humans to: (1) see over savannah grasses; and (2) to free hands to carry food. (From Lecture & Notes: Primate to Human Evolution)

55.

What answer choice best describes the purpose of the image? (from Worksheet: Homology vs. Analogy)

a)

homologous structures

b)

analogous structures

c)

heredity

d)

adaptation

e)

natural selection

56.

What answer choice best describes the purpose of the image? (from Worksheet: Homology vs. Analogy)

a)

homologous structures

b)

analogous structures

c)

heredity

d)

adaptation

e)

natural selection

57.

What answer choice best describes the egg-laying in birds and duck-billed platypuses? (from Worksheet: Homology vs. Analogy)

a)

homologous structures

b)

analogous structures

c)

heredity

d)

adaptation

e)

natural selection

58.

What answer choice best describes the hand structures of chimpanzees, humans and gorillas? (from Worksheet: Homology vs. Analogy)

a)

homologous structures

b)

analogous structures

c)

heredity

d)

adaptation

e)

natural selection

59.

What answer choice best describes the flippers of sharks and penguins? (from Worksheet: Homology vs. Analogy)

a)

homologous structures

b)

analogous structures

c)

heredity

d)

adaptation

e)

natural selection

60.

What answer choice best describes the common ancestor on the phylogenetic tree in the image? (from Worksheet: Homology vs. Analogy)

a)

Species A

b)

Species B

c)

Species C

d)

Species D

e)

Species E