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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do biologists classify organisms?
(a) Groups of internal features.
(b) Groups of functions.
(c) Groups of locations.
(d) Groups of resemblance.

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

3. What animal that is alive today could be considered an intermediate species of a mammal and the mastodon?
(a) Tiger.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Ox.
(d) Mammoth.

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

5. Organisms in which regions experience less competition?
(a) Small islands.
(b) Deserts.
(c) Mountain ranges.
(d) Polar ice caps.

6. What is one river that Darwin gives as an example of one that has dramatically changed over the years?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Nile.
(c) Rhine.
(d) Ohio.

7. In Chapter 8, according to Darwin's example, what domesticated variety is NOT able to reproduce?
(a) Maize.
(b) Ants.
(c) Mongrel.
(d) Spiders.

8. What do naturalists understand will never happen to most organisms?
(a) Selection.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Fossilization.
(d) Extinction.

9. What does Darwin suggest about variations of species in terms of examining the fossil records?
(a) All species evolve.
(b) Variation is consistent.
(c) Evolution goes in stages.
(d) Variation is not consistent.

10. What can be said about organisms belonging to the same species?
(a) They have similar habits.
(b) They originated from the same location.
(c) They will change at the same rate.
(d) They will produce the same type of variations.

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

12. What was the basis of classification in ancient times?
(a) Geographical similarities.
(b) Internal similarities.
(c) External similarities.
(d) Climate tolerance similarities.

13. What do species found on islands do for the theory of natural selection?
(a) Support it.
(b) Refute it.
(c) Increase classifications.
(d) Increase its complexity.

14. Why do hybrids tend to display little variation?
(a) There is no natural selection with hybrids.
(b) The parents are the same.
(c) Because of genetic defects.
(d) The parents are very close in characteristics.

15. In Geographical Distribution continued, what does Darwin suggest about the rule of natural selection?
(a) It is different on islands.
(b) It applies to all species.
(c) It does not apply to all species.
(d) There is a common ancestor.

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 is one variation found in birds that migrate?

3. What type of organisms will not fossilize?

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

5. What happens to the offspring when two of the same distinct species interbreed?

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