Darwin's Theory Of Evolution

Question 0

What was the name of the ship Darwin traveled on?

Answer 0

H.M.S. Beagle

Question 1

Define evolution.

Answer 1

Change over time.

Question 2

What two types of specimens did Darwin collect?

Answer 2

Plants and animals.

Question 3

What question did Darwin have about rabbits?

Answer 3

Why were there no rabbits in Australia, despite the presence of habitats the seemed perfect for them?

Question 4

What is the name of the small group of islands that influenced Darwin the most?

Answer 4

Galápagos Islands

Question 5

What was unusual about these islands?

Answer 5

They each had a different climate.

Question 6

Describe the shell for the Pinta Island Tortoise?

Answer 6

A shell that is intermediate

Question 7

Describe the shell shape for the Hood Island tortoise.

Answer 7

Long neck, a shell that is curved around the legs and neck, allowing the tortoise to reach the sparse vegetation on Hood Island.

Question 8

Describe the shell shape for the Isabela Island tortoise.

Answer 8

Dome-shaped shell and a shorter neck.

Question 9

What did the shape of the tortoise shell correspond to?

Answer 9

Different habitats.

Question 10

What varied among the plant and animal species among the island?

Answer 10

Their characteristics.

Question 11

What did Hutton and Lyell help scientists realize?

Answer 11

Earth is many millions of years old, and the processes that changes Earth in the past are the same processes that operate in the present.

Question 12

According to Lamarck’s theory of “Tendency Toward Perfection”, how did birds learn to fly?

Answer 12

Over many generations, birds kept trying to fly, and their wings increased in size and became more suitable to flying.

Question 13

Describe the concept of “Use and Disuse”.

Answer 13

If you don’t use it, you lose it.

Question 14

According to the “Inheritance of Acquired Traits” belief, how would the fact that you lift weights and build muscle affect your children?

Answer 14

Your kids would be born fit and with big muscles.

Question 15

Who estimated that the Earth is millions of years old?

Answer 15

James Hutton

Question 16

Who predicted that the human population will grow faster than the space and food supplies needed to sustain it?

Answer 16

Thomas Malthus

Question 17

Who publishes a hypothesis about “acquired” traits?

Answer 17

Jean-Baptist Lamarck

Question 18

Who set sail on the H.M.S. Beagle and collected plant and animal specimens?

Answer 18

Charles Darwin

Question 19

Who explained that the processes occurring now have shaped Earth’s geological features over long periods of time?

Answer 19

Charles Lyell

Question 20

Who wrote to Darwin about evolution by natural selection?

Answer 20

Alfred Wallace

Question 21

What is the name of Darwin’s book?

Answer 21

On the Origin of Species.

Question 22

Define struggle for existence.

Answer 22

Members of each species compete regularly to obtain food, living space, and necessities of life.

Question 23

Define fitness.

Answer 23

The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its specific environment.

Question 24

Define adaptation.

Answer 24

Any inherited characteristic that increases an organism’s chance of survival.

Question 25

Define survival of the fittest.

Answer 25

Individuals that are better suited to their environment that is, with high levels of fitness, survive and reproduce most successfully.

Question 26

Define natural selection

Answer 26

Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully.