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Theories of diversity pt 2 901

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The law of use and disuse was formulated by : ?

a)

Comte de Buffon

b)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

c)

Charles Bonnett

d)

Georges Cuvier

2.

Which of the following statements explains the law of use and disuse?

a)

Body structures develop because of mutation.

b)

Body structures develop because they are not in use.

c)

Body structures develop because of competition.

d)

Body structures develop because they are used extensively.

3.

How do fossils support evolution?

a)

The fossil record provides evidence that organisms have changed over time.

b)

Individual species disappear and reappear in the fossil record over time.

c)

The fossil record provides evidence that all organisms developed at the same time.

d)

Organisms in the fossil record are identical to living organisms.

4.
Who said that geological forces acting today are the same ones that have been acting in the past?
a)
Lamarck
b)

Erasmus Darwin

c)
Hutton
d)

Ussher

5.

Who said that the Earth was 4004 years old?

a)

James Ussher

b)

Charles Bonnet

c)

James Hutton

d)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

6.

Who proposed that fossils were the evidence for the infinite transformations of organisms?

a)

Georges Cuvier

b)

Charles Bonnet

c)

Comte de Buffon

d)

James Hutton

7.

Who proposed the theory of catastrophism as an explanation for the fossil record?

a)

Georges Cuvier

b)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

c)

Comte de Buffon

d)

Erasmus Darwin

8.

The following image describes:

a)

The continuous transformations of the giraffe,

b)

The law of use for the development of the giraffe's neck.

c)

Three different types of giraffes originated by preformism

d)

All are correct

9.

Carl Linnaeus proposed that:

a)

It was necessary to create a system of natural classification for all beings

b)

Fossils of some organisms were related to simmilar present organisms

c)

All fossils were caused by catastrophes

d)

Organisms can change in response to their environment

10.

Who proposed that organisms already pre-exist indefinitely, and do not change?

a)

Charles Bonnet

b)

Comte de Buffon

c)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

d)

James Hutton