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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: On the Imperfection of the Geological Record.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when species are inter-bred?
(a) Variations die out.
(b) Variations increase.
(c) Offspring are stronger.
(d) Offspring are weaker.

2. What do some scientists say is the reason that cultivated plants do not produce seeds?
(a) Poor nutrition.
(b) Poor soil.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Genetics.

3. In addition to the Formica rufescens, what other ant species takes slaves?
(a) Mycocepurus smithii.
(b) Formica sanguinea.
(c) Forelius pusillus.
(d) Odontomachus bauri.

4. What results as a climate becomes more hostile?
(a) Less food.
(b) Better cooperation between species.
(c) Fewer species.
(d) More competition.

5. What is the difference between the two types of variations discussed in Chapter 1: Variation Under Domestication?
(a) Location of variation.
(b) Degree of variation.
(c) The species that variations happen to.
(d) The area affected by the variation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would a variety do in order to become a new species?

2. When is the only time a rational conclusion can be reached on a theory?

3. What type of fossils may survive damaging geological changes?

4. Where did Darwin's ship travel?

5. What term refers to change from one generation to the next?

(see the answer key)

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