Chapter 2

Question 1

Evolution

Answer 1

Any change in allele frequencies from one generation to the next

Question 2

Natural selection

Answer 2

Generic change or changes in the frequencies of certain traits in populations due to differential reproductive success between individuals

Question 3

Catastrophism

Answer 3

The view that the earth’s geological landscape is the result of violent cataclysmic/ catastrophic events

Promoted by Cuvier

Question 4

Uniformitarianism

Answer 4

The theory that the earth’s features are the result of long-term processes that continue to operate in the present just as they did in the past.

Opposed catastrophism and contributed strongly to the concept of immense geological time

Question 5

Thomas Malthus

Answer 5

Proposed that popular size increases at a faster rate than food supplies

Question 6

Charles Lyell

Answer 6

The immense age of the earth

Question 7

Charles Darwin

Answer 7

Began to doubt the fixity if species during a voyage around the world

Question 8

Fixity of species

Answer 8

The belief that species do not change but are the same as when they were first created

Question 9

Carolina Linnaeus

Answer 9

Established a binomial system of classification for plants and animals