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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: Geographical Distribution.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What seems unlikely, but must be possible concerning the migration of fish?
(a) Accidental dispersal.
(b) Upstream migration.
(c) Southbound migration.
(d) Fresh to saltwater migration.

3. What period in time can explain many migrations due to climate change?
(a) Thermal Age.
(b) Ice Age.
(c) Industrial Age.
(d) Technological Age.

4. Who believed that humans would fall into starvation because they could not meet the needs of the population?
(a) Maltus.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Hooker.
(d) Newton.

5. When the same species live in regions separated by large bodies of water, what is the rationale for their existence?
(a) The species swam at one point.
(b) Human transport.
(c) There is no rationale.
(d) The regions were connected at one point.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do species survive to do?

2. What insect does Darwin offer as an example of having a naturally selected trait that is NOT beneficial?

3. What does Darwin suggest that natural selection cannot do independently?

4. Why is instinct NOT well-defined?

5. What is the struggle for existence caused by?

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