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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Geographical Distribution continued.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far are the Galapagos Islands from South America?
(a) 300 miles.
(b) 200 miles.
(c) 500 miles.
(d) 100 miles.

2. What do most organisms have a very good ability to do?
(a) Alter their biological makeup.
(b) Migrate.
(c) Reproduce.
(d) Adapt.

3. What is one river that Darwin gives as an example of one that has dramatically changed over the years?
(a) Rhine.
(b) Nile.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Ohio.

4. How is the American cuckoo different from the European cuckoo?
(a) The American cuckoo buries offspring.
(b) The American cuckoo eats offspring.
(c) The American cuckoo raises others' offspring.
(d) The American cuckoo raises its own offspring.

5. What type of organisms will not fossilize?
(a) Sea animals.
(b) Species with bones.
(c) Soft creatures.
(d) Insects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of populations experience more variations?

2. What typically happens when varieties are inter-breed?

3. What type of fossils may survive damaging geological changes?

4. In addition to the Formica rufescens, what other ant species takes slaves?

5. What do some scientists say is the reason that cultivated plants do not produce seeds?

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