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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following refers to a scientist who studies living creatures?
(a) Naturalist.
(b) Paleontologist.
(c) Geologist.
(d) Botanist.

2. Why would one organism be able to survive in a climate that another could not?
(a) It is better adapted.
(b) It is maladapted.
(c) It has thicker skin.
(d) It has more fur.

3. What would a variety do in order to become a new species?
(a) Exceed in numbers from the parent species.
(b) Reduce in numbers.
(c) Migrate.
(d) Inter-breed.

4. What does the process of species growth suggest about species that are transported into foreign regions?
(a) They stay stagnant.
(b) They inter-breed.
(c) They prosper.
(d) They do not prosper.

5. What term refers to exactly how species change over time?
(a) Darwin's Law.
(b) Laws of variation.
(c) Laws of change.
(d) Laws of heredity.

6. What can be said about the range of species that are closely related?
(a) They are typically large.
(b) They are typically very small.
(c) They are restricted.
(d) They are unrestricted.

7. What typically happens when varieties are inter-breed?
(a) Variations die out.
(b) Offspring are stronger.
(c) Variations increase.
(d) Offspring are weaker.

8. How is the practice of purposeful selection seen throughout history?
(a) Relics from ancient civilizations.
(b) No change in species.
(c) Natural change in species.
(d) Written records.

9. What aspect of organisms is not caused by chance?
(a) Size.
(b) Gender.
(c) Location.
(d) Variation.

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

11. What is unique about white cats with blue eyes?
(a) They are not seen in the wild.
(b) They do not reproduce.
(c) They are blind.
(d) They are deaf.

12. Why does the point of possible starvation for animals occur sooner than for humans?
(a) Humans artificially produce food.
(b) Humans can last longer on less food.
(c) Humans have better hunting tools.
(d) Humans can rely on dietary supplements.

13. What typically happens to a species that begins to vary and forms two distinct species?
(a) One of the species will become extinct.
(b) They will inhabit more area.
(c) They will be classified as sub-species.
(d) They will require more resources.

14. What bodily system do some scientists believe is responsible for producing individual differences?
(a) Skin.
(b) Reproductive.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Brain.

15. Why are some useless organs sill found in animals?
(a) All organs have a purpose.
(b) They have not been bred out.
(c) Selection takes time.
(d) They were used by ancestors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might one explain the correlation of growth?

2. What type of populations may be more likely to become extinct?

3. What type of relationship do organisms have with one another?

4. What is likely to NOT affect variations that are consistent among individuals?

5. In Chapter 4: Natural Selection, what does Darwin suggest about most variations?

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