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Activities Quiz


1 .       The Galápagos Islands are cooled by the _____. (Activity: Darwin and the Galápagos Islands) 

 Equatorial Countercurrent
 Humboldt Current
 Monsoon Drift
 Gulf Stream
 Kuroshio Current
2 .       How many finch species did Darwin send to the British Museum? (Activity: Darwin and the Galápagos Islands) 

 13
 15
 17
 21
 27
3 .       Darwin's thinking while on the Beagle was greatly influenced by his reading of a book written by _____. (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 Bishop Ussher
 Lyell
 Chaucer
 Wallace
 Shakespeare
4 .       According to this climatograph, London experiences more precipitation during _____ than during any other month. (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World)


 

 January
 February
 October
 June
 July
5 .       Which of these is a consequence of uniformitarianism? (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 Earth is round, not flat.
 Populations evolve.
 Populations reproduce faster than their food supply.
 A Creator made Earth.
 Earth is old.
6 .       The Argentinean pampas are a type of _____. (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 chaparral
 grassland
 temperate deciduous forest
 tropical forest
 desert
7 .       At the fossil site at Punta Alta, Darwin found evidence _____. (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 that the pampas could support large mammals
 extinction does not happen
 of extinction
 that Brazilian flatworms were a type of slug
 of divine creation
8 .       Patagonia is a _____. (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 grassland
 savanna
 tropical forest
 chaparral
 desert
9 .       His experiences with Fuegians and slavery convinced Darwin that differences among all peoples are primarily _____ differences. (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 cultural
 genetic
 cultural and genetic
 height
 genetic and height
10 .       Species in hot climates tend to _____ compared to species in cold climates. (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 experience less interspecific competition
 have larger surface-to-volume ratios
 have smaller surface-to-volume ratios
 be less colorful
 have less fear of humans
11 .       In the Andes, at elevations of 12,000 feet, Darwin collected fossilized marine shells. The existence of marine shells at this altitude provided evidence that _____. (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 marine organisms can survive at great elevation
 Earth's surface changes
 geologic processes occur at a rapid rate
 someone carried them from the oceans and left them on the mountains
 Earth's surface does not change
12 .       The Galápagos Islands are located _____. (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 in the Arctic
 in the Antarctic
 off the coast of California
 on the equator
 off the coast of Brazil
13 .       Why were the Galápagos Islands so important to Darwin's formulation of natural selection? (Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin's Trip Around the World) 

 They provided evidence in support of uniformitarianism.
 They are where Darwin did most of his writing.
 The Galápagos Islands are the only place in the world where finches are found.
 The Galápagos Islands are home to many unique species.
 The species found on the Galápagos Islands are also found in Australia.
14 .       Which of the following is(are) homologous to the bones in this image? (Activity: Reconstructing Forelimbs)

 

 

 

 

 

 
15 .       The wing of a bat is homologous to the _____ of a whale. (Activity: Reconstructing Forelimbs) 

 tail
 blowhole
 flipper
 rib cage
 baleen





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