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Vocabulary B8 Speciation

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The formation of a new species is called

a)

Natural selection

b)

Struggle for existence

c)

Speciation

d)

Darwinism

2.

A speciation in which new species evolve from a single ancestral species while inhabiting the SAME geographic region.

a)

Sympatric speciation

b)

Allopatric speciation

c)

Complex speciation

d)

Divergent speciation

3.
What is a species? 
a)

A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring. 

b)

A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring even if those offspring are infertile.

c)

A group of organisms that genetically are very different from each other. 

d)

Indivual organisms that live in the same environment. 

4.

The term for the formation of new and distinct species over the course of evolution is...

a)

speciation

b)

biological species concept

c)

reproductive barrier

d)

natural selection

5.

A population is best described as....

a)

When a new species is made from an existing species

b)

A group of individuals in the same species

c)

Mating

d)

Ability of an organism to have children

6.

A type of speciation caused by geographic barriers separating populations that once shared a gene pool

a)

Sympatric

b)

Allopatric

c)

Chemical

d)

Temporal

7.

The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.

a)

fitness

b)

natural selection

c)

adaptation

d)

habitat

8.

What is an inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?

a)

Evolution

b)

Adaptation

c)

Natural Selection

d)

Extinction

9.

A process of 2 or more species becoming more and more dissimilar.

a)

Convergent Evolution

b)

Divergent Evolution

c)

Coevolution

10.

Unrelated species become more and more similar as they adapt to the same kind of environment.

a)

Divergent Evolution

b)

Convergent Evolution

c)

Coevolution

11.

A process in which 2 species evolve in response to changes in each other.

a)

Convergent Evolution

b)

Divergent Evolution

c)

Coevolution

12.

A process by which two species that could otherwise produce hybrid offspring are prevented from doing so. 

a)

speciation

b)

Isolation

c)

evolution

d)

fitness

13.

A type of isolation where species that could interbreed, do not because the different species breed at different times.

a)

temporal isolation

b)

geographic isolation

c)

behavioral isolation

d)

mechanical isolation

14.

A type of isolation used by many species to perform different mating rituals.

a)

temporal isolation

b)

geographic isolation

c)

behavioral isolation

d)

mechanical isolation

15.

A type of isolation in which a physical barrier is present that keep two species from mating.

a)

temporal isolation

b)

geographic isolation

c)

behavioral isolation

d)

mechanical isolation