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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. What do species survive to do?
(a) Increase the population.
(b) Survive.
(c) Migrate.
(d) Eat.

2. What species of bees builds inefficient hives?
(a) Hive-bees.
(b) Bumblebees.
(c) Honeybees.
(d) Yellow jackets.

3. What is the major limiting factor to migration?
(a) Lakes.
(b) Oceans.
(c) Land mass.
(d) Stamina.

4. What behaviors have been lost through the domestication of cats and dogs?
(a) Eating chickens.
(b) Breeding.
(c) Barking/meowing.
(d) Fighting.

5. What does Darwin suggest that natural selection cannot do independently?
(a) Produce the same species twice.
(b) Create new species.
(c) Eliminate dysfunctional traits.
(d) Cause extinction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one consequence of natural selection?

2. What is NOT sufficient to account for differences in organisms in different regions?

3. Why does the point of possible starvation for animals occur sooner than for humans?

4. When the same species live in regions separated by large bodies of water, what is the rationale for their existence?

5. What is correlated with a difference in creatures that inhabit a region?

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