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WorksheetsVocabulary B8 Speciation
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 6mins
The formation of a new species is called
Natural selection
Struggle for existence
Speciation
Darwinism
A speciation in which new species evolve from a single ancestral species while inhabiting the SAME geographic region.
Sympatric speciation
Allopatric speciation
Complex speciation
Divergent speciation
A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring.
A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring even if those offspring are infertile.
A group of organisms that genetically are very different from each other.
Indivual organisms that live in the same environment.
The term for the formation of new and distinct species over the course of evolution is...
speciation
biological species concept
reproductive barrier
natural selection
A population is best described as....
When a new species is made from an existing species
A group of individuals in the same species
Mating
Ability of an organism to have children
A type of speciation caused by geographic barriers separating populations that once shared a gene pool
Sympatric
Allopatric
Chemical
Temporal
The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
fitness
natural selection
adaptation
habitat
What is an inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?
Evolution
Adaptation
Natural Selection
Extinction
A process of 2 or more species becoming more and more dissimilar.
Convergent Evolution
Divergent Evolution
Coevolution
Unrelated species become more and more similar as they adapt to the same kind of environment.
Divergent Evolution
Convergent Evolution
Coevolution
A process in which 2 species evolve in response to changes in each other.
Convergent Evolution
Divergent Evolution
Coevolution
A process by which two species that could otherwise produce hybrid offspring are prevented from doing so.
speciation
Isolation
evolution
fitness
A type of isolation where species that could interbreed, do not because the different species breed at different times.
temporal isolation
geographic isolation
behavioral isolation
mechanical isolation
A type of isolation used by many species to perform different mating rituals.
temporal isolation
geographic isolation
behavioral isolation
mechanical isolation
A type of isolation in which a physical barrier is present that keep two species from mating.
temporal isolation
geographic isolation
behavioral isolation
mechanical isolation
