Change Over Time Review

What did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations of the Galapagos Islands?

• different species were found on different islands

• all species were found on one of the islands

• identical species were found on all the islands

• the same species were found as ones found in North America

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This image shows that

• These animals have no simliarities in their structures.

• Two different species may have evolved from a common ancestor.

• These animals are from the same species.

• These animals likely evolved from different ancestors due to their differences.

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Which statement best describes the process of evolution?

• Populations can survive in different locations on earth

• Environmental conditions limit the number of species on Earth

• Populations grow when resources are abundant

• The traits of a species can change over time

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Charles Darwin’s observation that finches of different species on the Galápagos Islands have many similar physical characteristics supports the hypothesis that these finches 
 

• have the ability to interbreed.
  have the ability to interbreed.

• acquired traits through use and disuse.

• all eat the same type of food.

• descended from a common ancestor.

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Change over time is ________.

• Evolution

• Biological Evolution

• Extinction

• Mass Extinction

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Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection (survival of the fittest)?

• Galapagos Islands

• Charles Dickens

• Charles Darwin

• Jay Wright

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because they come from dominant alleles.

• Because they come from recessive alleles.

• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• adaptive radiation

• fossil

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Study of embryos of various organisms to show a common ancestor because of similarities in development

• natural selection

• embryology

• speciation

• evolution

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