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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 results as a climate becomes more hostile?
(a) Better cooperation between species.
(b) More competition.
(c) Fewer species.
(d) Less food.

2. What other actions do birds use their wings for?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Mating.
(c) Running.
(d) Cleaning.

3. What other field of science can natural selection be compared to?
(a) Physics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Geology.
(d) Biology.

4. What does natural selection say must be true for change to be preserved?
(a) It must be universal.
(b) It must be genetic.
(c) It must be beneficial to the species.
(d) It must be unique.

5. What is one function that cave dwelling animals lost through natural selection?
(a) Taste.
(b) Sight.
(c) Touch.
(d) Hearing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is a radical change in the structure or behavior of an organism?

3. What does the absence of complete facts with Darwin's theory open the theory up to?

4. What is unique about variation in polymorphic species?

5. What types of species forms are NOT found in nature?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the importance of indefinite variations?

2. Why does Darwin suggest his methods of study are inadequate?

3. What is the difference between domesticated and wild animals, according to Darwin?

4. How does the growth of a population work?

5. What was Darwin's specific interest in the living species?

6. Why would, on some islands, nature select for beetles that do not fly?

7. Why does Darwin feel the distinction between species variations is arbitrary?

8. What occurs in situations where a species is moved from one climate to another?

9. Why isn't it safe to assume that regions that are physically connected in the present day were connected in the past?

10. Why are the laws of inheritance still not understood?

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