Chapter 16 Evolution HW Test
1. Darwin noticed that many organisms seemed well suited to
a. Being preserved as fossils
b. Providing humans with food
c. Surviving in the environments in which they lived
d. Swimming from South America to the Galapagos Islands
2. Which of the following ideas was NOT part of Darwin’s contribution to science?
a. Descent with modification
b. Inheritance of acquired characteristics
c. Survival of the fittest
d. Natural selection
3. Darwin first began to form his concept of evolution by natural selection after
a. Experimenting with animals
b. Observing patterns among the geographical location of certain species
c. Reading the writings of Wallace
d. Agreeing with Lamarck about the driving force behind evolution
4. James Hutton and Charles Lyell’s work was important to Darwin because they
a. Explained volcanoes and earthquakes
b. Explained all geologic events on earth
c. Suggested that earth was old enough for evolution to occur
d. Disagreed with Lamarck’s ideas
5. What is a major idea included in Lamarck’s evolutionary hypothesis?
a. Change is the result of survival of the fittest
b. Body structures can change according to organism
c. A small population size decreases the rate of evolution
d. Artificial selection is the basis of evolution
6. Thomas Malthus suggested that
a. In the human population, people die faster than babies are born
b. Without certain checks on population size, there would soon be not enough food for the
growing population
c. In the 1700s, people needed more houses
d. The majority of a species offspring die
7. Darwin realized that the Malthus’s theory of population control
a. Applied only to humans
b. Could be applied to any organism population
c. Could be applied only in populations with crowded conditions
d. Explained why the number of deaths were greater than births
8. When a dairy farmer breeds cows that give the most milk, he is following which?
a. Acquired characteristics
b. Descent with modification
c. Artificial selection
d. Natural selection
9. According to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, individuals who survive are the ones best
adapted for their environment. Their survival is due to?
a. Adaptations developing through need
b. Having inherited adaptations that maximize fitness
c. Lack of competition within species
d. Choices made by plant and animal breeders
10. Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment
a. Diversity
b. Fitness
c. Adaptation
d. Evolution
11. The hypothesis that all species descended from common ancestors was proposed by
a. James Hutton
b. Jean Baptise Lamarck
c. Thomas Malthus
d. Charles Darwin
12. Biogeography is the study of
a. Where species and their ancestors live
b. How extinct species are related to living species
c. How different species can make offspring
d. How animals that live in the same area are related
13. In humans, the pelvis and femur are involved in walking. In whales, the pelvis and femur shown
on the above picture are
a. Examples of fossils
b. Vestigial structures
c. Acquired traits
d. Variation
14. Structures that have similar bone structure but do not have similar functions are
a. Homologous
b. Analogous
c. Fossils
d. Natural selection
15. Structures that have similar functions but do not have similar structure origins are
a. Homologous
b. Analogous
c. Vestigial
d. Common
Instructions:
1. This will be due Friday 5/15/20 at the end of the day
2. If you are going to write on a separate sheet of paper only put
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