Unit 9 - Speciation Quiz Review

Based on the image above, what type of Isolation is shown?

• Geographic Isolation

• Behavioral Isolation

• Temporal Isolation

Fireflies make a pattern of flashes that attract mates of their own species. What type of isolation is this?

• Geographic Isolation

• Behavioral Isolation

• Temporal Isolation

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Two species of whales are divided by a physical barrier that connects two continents. What type of isolation is this?

• Geographic Isolation

• Behavioral Isolation

• Temporal Isolation

One species of lizard breeds in the spring, one breeds in the summer. What type of isolation is this?

• Geographic Isolation

• Behavioral Isolation

• Temporal Isolation

Two unrelated species evolve in a way that makes them more similar.

• adaptive radiation

• microevolution

• coevolution

• convergent evolution

• divergent evolution

What type of macroevolution is happening in the image?

• adaptive radiation

• microevolution

• coevolution

• convergent evolution

• divergent evolution

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Finches on the Galapagos Islands share similar characteristics because they share a common ancestor but have evolved into many different types of species to eat different foods in order to survive. What type of macroevolution is being described?

• adaptive radiation

• microevolution

• coevolution

• convergent evolution

• divergent evolution

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The rapid evolution of a group following its introduction into a new habitat or occupation of newly available niches is called ________________?

• adaptive radiation

• microevolution

• coevolution

• convergent evolution

• divergent evolution

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Is this image and description Gradualism or Punctuated Equilibrium?

• Gradualism

• Punctuated Equilibrium

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What are evolutionary trees called? (More than one answer)

• Punctuated Equilibrium

• Phylogenic Tree

• Gradualism

• Cladogram

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