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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does migration inhibit the development of a fossil record?
(a) They become buried deeper in the earth.
(b) Predators ruin the fossils.
(c) They do not inhibit the record.
(d) Because they take time to develop.

2. When the same species live in regions separated by large bodies of water, what is the rationale for their existence?
(a) There is no rationale.
(b) Human transport.
(c) The regions were connected at one point.
(d) The species swam at one point.

3. What terms refer to parts that are similar in structure?
(a) Heterogeneous parts.
(b) Identical parts.
(c) Homogeneous parts.
(d) Homologous parts.

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

5. What type of organisms will not fossilize?
(a) Insects.
(b) Sea animals.
(c) Soft creatures.
(d) Species with bones.

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

7. What do commonalities of species found on islands say about species in general?
(a) They migrate.
(b) They were created independently.
(c) They descend from a common ancestor.
(d) There are many variations.

8. If natural selection is accepted, what is rejected?
(a) There is only artificial selection.
(b) Species were created independently.
(c) All differences must be different species.
(d) Variations must be subjective.

9. 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.

10. What does Darwin state is a main difference between first generation mongrels and first generation hybrids?
(a) First generation mongrels show more variation.
(b) First generation mongrels show no variation.
(c) First generation mongrels show less variation.
(d) First generation mongrels are larger.

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

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

13. Which of the following refers to ways by which an organism could spread to a new area that would NOT typically occur naturally?
(a) Accidental means of dispersal.
(b) Artificial migration.
(c) Species changes.
(d) Human transport.

14. What does Darwin suggest is the only logical way to classify organisms?
(a) Internal similarities.
(b) Habitat.
(c) External similarities.
(d) Genealogy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For natural selection to be true, what could be suggested about transitional forms?

2. Why might a hybrid species NOT survive birth?

3. What is on the seeds of plants that helps them reproduce?

4. What happens when two fossils of the same species are chronologically far apart?

5. What seems unlikely, but must be possible concerning the migration of fish?

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