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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Geographical Distribution continued.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unique about white cats with blue eyes?
(a) They are not seen in the wild.
(b) They do not reproduce.
(c) They are deaf.
(d) They are blind.

2. What is one function that cave dwelling animals lost through natural selection?
(a) Taste.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Sight.
(d) Touch.

3. In what type of species are variations of the eye found?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Crustaceans.
(c) Humans.
(d) Birds.

4. What do Naturalists suggest is one definite distinction between a species and a variety?
(a) Size of groups.
(b) Life span.
(c) Geographical range.
(d) Domestication.

5. What do naturalists say about the situation of hybrids resembling their parents?
(a) Natural selection cannot explain this resemblance.
(b) Artificial selection explains this.
(c) Natural selection can explain this resemblance.
(d) There is no explanation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is correlated with a difference in creatures that inhabit a region?

2. What do scientists find throughout the fossil record?

3. What typically happens to a species that begins to vary and forms two distinct species?

4. What is one of the most serious objections to natural selection?

5. Who believed that humans would fall into starvation because they could not meet the needs of the population?

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