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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Natural Selection.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is likely to NOT affect variations that are consistent among individuals?
(a) Domestication.
(b) Natural selection.
(c) External factors.
(d) Competition.

2. What other field of science can natural selection be compared to?
(a) Physics.
(b) Geology.
(c) Biology.
(d) Psychology.

3. What type of populations experience more variations?
(a) Diverse populations.
(b) Small populations.
(c) Large populations.
(d) Medium populations.

4. What is unique about variation in polymorphic species?
(a) Dependent on external factors.
(b) Not dependent on internal factors.
(c) All invertibrates.
(d) Not dependent on external factors.

5. What may stop a group of carnivorous wolves from growing?
(a) Climate change.
(b) The group decreases in numbers.
(c) The group becomes too large.
(d) Migration changes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term refers to a type of variation that is NOT inherited and only affects individuals?

2. What term refers to those organisms that survive despite the struggle for resources?

3. What does natural selection favor in terms of increasing population?

4. When is the only time a rational conclusion can be reached on a theory?

5. What do species survive to do?

(see the answer key)

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