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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What types of species forms are NOT found in nature?
(a) Natural.
(b) Competitve.
(c) Collaborative.
(d) Transitional.
2. What do scientists attribute to organs that cannot be explained by natural selection?
(a) Inheritance.
(b) Disuse.
(c) Use.
(d) Overuse.
3. What is one function that cave dwelling animals lost through natural selection?
(a) Hearing.
(b) Taste.
(c) Sight.
(d) Touch.
4. How might one explain the correlation of growth?
(a) Natural selection changes the whole, not just a part.
(b) A natural mistake.
(c) Natural selection's way to economize.
(d) Complication in selection.
5. What type of selection primarily affects the reproductive characteristics of a species?
(a) Artificial selection.
(b) Sexual selection.
(c) Natural selection.
(d) Environmental selection.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which term refers to organisms with no distinct gender?
2. What is the best example of traits that continue to vary?
3. What classification has a large number of species?
4. What does Darwin suggest about variation for parts that are NOT specialized?
5. What can some amount of variation be attributed to?
Short Essay Questions
1. Is there a cycle to the struggle for existence? Explain.
2. How can the geology of mountains and valleys be related to natural selection?
3. Why is the eye used as an example of an organ too complex to be explained by natural selection?
4. How do Naturalists define a species and a variety?
5. Why does Darwin suggest his methods of study are inadequate?
6. How do variations occur in the wild?
7. What is the difference between domesticated and wild animals, according to Darwin?
8. Why would natural selection be considered counter-intuitive?
9. How does the growth of a population work?
10. What must be examined in order for Darwin's theory to be considered plausible?
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