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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one consequence of natural selection?
(a) Change cannot involve other organs.
(b) Change must benefit the species.
(c) Change must benefit the environment.
(d) Change must be small.

2. When are fossils typically preserved?
(a) Between periods of geological change.
(b) During earthquakes.
(c) In the winter.
(d) During storms.

3. Which of the following refers to organs that serve no purpose?
(a) Rudimentary organs.
(b) Dead organs.
(c) Extra organs.
(d) Homologous organs.

4. What behaviors have been lost through the domestication of cats and dogs?
(a) Eating chickens.
(b) Barking/meowing.
(c) Breeding.
(d) Fighting.

5. How do organisms differ within classifications?
(a) In their habits.
(b) In their mating.
(c) In their eating.
(d) In their migration.

6. Where is much of the evidence proving natural selection found?
(a) Geological records.
(b) Fossil records.
(c) Ancient generations.
(d) New generations.

7. What do scientists find throughout the fossil record?
(a) Life.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Flaws in nature.
(d) New species.

8. What type of species are most likely to inter-breed?
(a) Polymorphic organisms.
(b) Domesticated organisms.
(c) Mammals.
(d) Wild species.

9. Why do scientists believe fossils do not exist at the bottom of the ocean?
(a) No species that far down.
(b) Fossils are only found on land.
(c) Too much pressure.
(d) They cannot get to the bottom.

10. What period in time can explain many migrations due to climate change?
(a) Industrial Age.
(b) Technological Age.
(c) Thermal Age.
(d) Ice Age.

11. What can instinct be compared with?
(a) Habit.
(b) Nature.
(c) Variation.
(d) Life force.

12. What do naturalists say about the situation of hybrids resembling their parents?
(a) There is no explanation.
(b) Artificial selection explains this.
(c) Natural selection can explain this resemblance.
(d) Natural selection cannot explain this resemblance.

13. What type of species do many islands lack?
(a) Crustaceans.
(b) Birds.
(c) Mammals.
(d) Amphibians.

14. What does Darwin suggest that natural selection cannot do independently?
(a) Create new species.
(b) Eliminate dysfunctional traits.
(c) Cause extinction.
(d) Produce the same species twice.

15. What is one variation found in birds that migrate?
(a) Distance of migration.
(b) Location of migration.
(c) Duration of migration.
(d) Timing of migration.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of species has perfect fertility of variations been demonstrated?

2. How far are the Galapagos Islands from South America?

3. What is the major limiting factor to migration?

4. Why does migration inhibit the development of a fossil record?

5. What do large shifts in geology promote in species?

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