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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 is correlated with a difference in creatures that inhabit a region?
(a) Food supply.
(b) Migration patterns.
(c) The barriers of that region.
(d) Mating potential.

2. What is one unique characteristic of the European cuckoo?
(a) Buries eggs.
(b) Eats eggs.
(c) Cares for other birds' eggs.
(d) Lays eggs in other birds' nests.

3. What is required for a species to continue to grow?
(a) Land.
(b) Other species.
(c) Strong males.
(d) Food supply.

4. What is the primary cause for the struggle for survival between species?
(a) Variation.
(b) Rapid reproduction.
(c) Environmental factors.
(d) Food sources.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the American cuckoo different from the European cuckoo?

2. What is one consequence of natural selection?

3. What behaviors have been lost through the domestication of cats and dogs?

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

5. What may stop a group of carnivorous wolves from growing?

(see the answer key)

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