CH17 quiz

Question 1

Natural Selection

Answer 1

Organisms with best traits for their environment survive and reproduce

Question 2

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

Answer 2

Acquired Characteristics: organisms gain a trait while alive and pass it on

Question 3

Uniformitarianism

Answer 3

Processes happening today always happened the same way

Question 4

6 things for natural selection

Answer 4

overproduction, limited resources, variations, adaptation, struggle for existence, inheritance

Question 5

Transitional species

Answer 5

connected current organisms to common ancestors

Question 6

Homologous vs Analogous

Answer 6

structure similar to ancestors, structure similar to different ancestors

Question 7

Vestigial Structure

Answer 7

Traits from an ancestor lost their function

Question 8

Artificial selection

Answer 8

man made selection

Question 9

Galápagos Islands

Answer 9

Different beaks and tortoises, things in same place have differences

Question 10

Thomas Malthus

Answer 10

Economist that questioned if there is enough recourses for the amount of people