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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 NOT sufficient to account for differences in organisms in different regions?
(a) Food supply.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Differences in climate and terrain.
(d) Natural selection.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following refers to ways by which an organism could spread to a new area that would NOT typically occur naturally?

2. What does Darwin suggest about acquired traits in parents?

3. What is the major limiting factor to migration?

4. What do some geologists suggest about islands in the Atlantic and the continent of Europe?

5. What does the process of species growth suggest about species that are transported into foreign regions?

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