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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: Geographical Distribution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the American cuckoo different from the European cuckoo?
(a) The American cuckoo raises its own offspring.
(b) The American cuckoo eats offspring.
(c) The American cuckoo raises others' offspring.
(d) The American cuckoo buries offspring.

2. What does Darwin suggest about acquired traits in parents?
(a) They cannot be selected for.
(b) They cannot be passed on.
(c) They do not last a lifetime.
(d) They can be passed to offspring.

3. What does Darwin suggest that natural selection cannot do independently?
(a) Create new species.
(b) Eliminate dysfunctional traits.
(c) Cause extinction.
(d) Produce the same species twice.

4. Which of the following refers to ways by which an organism could spread to a new area that would NOT typically occur naturally?
(a) Accidental means of dispersal.
(b) Human transport.
(c) Artificial migration.
(d) Species changes.

5. What separates marine life near the equator and South America that causes vast differences in species?
(a) Peru.
(b) Fresh water rivers.
(c) Small strip of Panama.
(d) Atlantic Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the point of possible starvation for animals occur sooner than for humans?

2. What may stop a group of carnivorous wolves from growing?

3. What is NOT sufficient to account for differences in organisms in different regions?

4. What species of bee builds the most efficient hives?

5. Which species require more years for change?

(see the answer key)

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