Change Over Time Test

Question 1

What is the two word naming system used by scientists

Answer 1

Binomial nomenclature

Question 2

What scientist developed the classification system

Answer 2

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 3

What order did the events at galapogose island occur

Answer 3

Founders arrive
Separation of populations
Changes in gene pool 
Reproductive isolation 
Ecological competition 
Continued evolution

Question 4

When are two species said to be reproductively isolated

Answer 4

When the species no longer interbreed

Question 5

What are the three causes of reproductive isolation

Answer 5

Behavioral isolation, geographic isolation, temporal isolation

Question 6

A system of ideas intended to explain something

Answer 6

Theory

Question 7

Process by which individuals who are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive or reproduce

Answer 7

Natural selection

Question 8

Trait that helps an organisms survived or reproduce

Answer 8

Adaptation

Question 9

Preserved remains of ancient organisms

Answer 9

Fossils

Question 10

The process of change over time

Answer 10

Evolution

Question 11

Factor that effects natural selection in which species fight over recourses

Answer 11

Competition

Question 12

Prokaryotes who’s cell walls contain peptidoglycan

Answer 12

Eubacteria

Question 13

Prokaryotes who’s cell walls lack peptidoglycan

Answer 13

Archaebacteria

Question 14

Unicellular, colonial, or multicellular eukaryotes that show a variety of characteristics

Answer 14

Protista

Question 15

Multicellular autotrophs whose cell walls contain cellulose

Answer 15

Plantae

Question 16

Heterotrophs whose cell walls contain chitin

Answer 16

Fungi

Question 17

Multicellular eukaryotes without cell walls or chloroplasts

Answer 17

Animalia

Question 18

What is the order of classification

Answer 18

Domain
Kingdom
Phylum 
Class
Order
Family
Genus 
Species

Question 19

Scientist who studies fossils or the preserved remains or traces of organisms that have lived in the past

Answer 19

Paleontologist

Question 20

Collections of fossils organized to provide evidence about history of life on earth, including how organisms have changed over time

Answer 20

Fossil record

Question 21

Age of fossils are determined by comparing its placement with that of other fossils in other layers of rock

Answer 21

Relative dating

Question 22

Involves measuring the amount of radioactive isotopes in a sample to determine its actual age

Answer 22

Radioactive dating

Question 23

First part of a scientific name

Answer 23

Genus

Question 24

Second part of a scientific name

Answer 24

Species

Question 25

Phylogeny

Answer 25

Study of how living and extinct organisms are related to one another

Question 26

Group of species that includes a single common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor

Answer 26

Clade

Question 27

Diagram that links groups of organisms by showing how evolutionary lines, or lineages branched off from common ancestors

Answer 27

Cladogram

Question 28

Trait that arose in the most recent common ancestor of a particular lineage and passed to its descendants

Answer 28

Derived character

Question 29

Where did Darwin travel to where he observed many unusual organisms

Answer 29

Galapogose islands

Question 30

What is genetic drift

Answer 30

Random change in a small populations allele frequency

Question 31

What is taxonomy

Answer 31

Grouping and naming of things

Question 32

What broad characteristics do biologists use to group living things into kingdoms

Answer 32

Cell type, ability to make food, number of cells that make up their body