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Bio Unit 17-18 Evolution & Natural Selection

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  • Q1
    What is natural selection?
    When a few organisms move to a new location and start a new population.
    When organisms that are BEST adapted/suited to the environment survive and reproduce the most.
    When organisms need to adapt to a changing environment to survive.
    When organisms acquire traits to match a changing environment
    30s
  • Q2

    Sort the following types of reproduction into the correct categories:

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    Sorting
    30s
  • Q3
    What three things fit the picture above
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    They are Homologous Body structures Coevolution and they did NOT share a Common Ancestor.
    They are Anaogous Body Structures, Coevolution, and they shared a common ancestor
    They are Analogous Body structures, Convergent Evolution, and they did NOT share a common ancestor
    They are Homologous Body Structures, Divergent Evolution and they DID share a common ancestor
    30s
  • Q4
    Populations evolve and change in response to what?
    The changing environment.
    Acquired Traits
    Organisms Choosing which trait works best.
    Artificial Selection
    30s
  • Q5
    When 2 organisms are in a close relationship, like predators and prey or insects and flower, and when 1 organisms changes, the other organism changes in response, that is what type of evolution?
    Artificial Selection
    Coevolution
    Convergent Evolution
    Divergent Evolution
    30s
  • Q6
    What type of evolution is shown?
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    Convergent Evolution
    Divergent Evolution
    Use and Disuse
    Coevolution
    30s
  • Q7
    What is carrying capacity?
    The average number of organisms an environment can carry/support at that time.
    The lowest number of organisms the environment has ever carried/supported.
    The highest number of organisms the environment has ever carried/supported.
    The number of organisms that will start dying off when resources run out.
    30s
  • Q8
    What is an important mechanism for new traits to appear and thus evolution to occur, but is not the MAIN mechanism?
    Carrying Capacity
    Mutations
    Limited resources
    Artificial Selection
    30s
  • Q9
    What 3 statements fit the picture above
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    They are Analogous Body Structures, Convergent Evolution and they did NOT share a common ancestor.
    They are Homologous Body Structures, Divergent Evolution, and they DID share a common ancestor.
    They are Analogous Body Structures, Coevolution and they DID share a common Ancestor
    They are Homologous Body Structures, Coveolution and they did share a common ancestor.
    30s
  • Q10
    What is Evolution?
    When humans choose which organism will reproduce based on desired traits in the offspring.
    When all organisms adapt because they need to when the environment changes.
    When organisms acquire the traits they need to survive when the environment changes.
    The process of change that occurs over time in a population, driven by natural selection.
    30s
  • Q11
    Punctuated Equilibrium is the type of evolution that occurs how:
    Constant rapid change
    Long Periods of No change followed by short periods of rapid change.
    Long periods of rapid change followed by short periods of no change
    Constant, slow and steady change
    30s
  • Q12
    Gradualism is the type of evolution that has:
    Long Periods of No change followed by short periods of rapid change.
    Constant, slow, and steady change.
    Long periods of rapid change followed by short periods of no change
    Constant rapid change
    30s
  • Q13
    What is a population?
    All of the different species living in a specific ecosystem.
    Only the consumers in an ecosystem.
    A group of interbreeding individuals of a single species.
    All of the Abiotic and Biotic Factors in an ecosystem
    30s
  • Q14
    When scientists can determine a fossil is 4 billion years old by measuring the radioactive carbon in the fossil, they used what method of dating?
    Relative dating
    Absolute Dating
    Order Dating
    30s
  • Q15
    When 2 organisms are in the same area, but don't interbreed because they have different mating rituals, what type of mechanism is this?
    Reproductive Isolation
    Geographical Isolation
    Behavioral Isolation
    Temporal Isolation
    30s

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