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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Natural Selection.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when two species from different climates interbreed?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Traits favoring the previous climate are still selected for.
(c) Some traits are not selected for.
(d) All traits are selected for.

2. What classification has a large number of species?
(a) Genera.
(b) Flora.
(c) Organism.
(d) Colony.

3. What does the absence of complete facts with Darwin's theory open the theory up to?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Objections.
(c) Success.
(d) Failure.

4. In Chapter 1: Variation Under Domestication, what animal does Darwin give as an example for being perfectly adapted for catching its food?
(a) Beaver.
(b) Woodpecker.
(c) Tiger.
(d) Bull.

5. What type of populations experience more variations?
(a) Medium populations.
(b) Small populations.
(c) Diverse populations.
(d) Large populations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason that some species' traits are different from other species?

2. What type of selection primarily affects the reproductive characteristics of a species?

3. What do naturalists connect with species that have two or three variations?

4. As an example of a variation, what does Darwin indicate in Chapter 1 that is a change due to improved diet?

5. What tends to occur in large groups of genera?

(see the answer key)

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