FINAL EXAM DELGADO PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

FINAL EXAM DELGADO PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The study of the distribution of animals and plants around the world is a. natural history. b. ecology. c. diversity. d. biogeography. e. environmentalism - Answer️️ -d. biogeography. The tailbone of humans is an example of: a. a developing feature. b. an example of the great chain of being. c. a vestigial feature. d. an accidental feature. e. none of these. - Answer️️ -c. a vestigial feature. natural historian and author; early ideas of Chain of Being - Answer️️ -Aristotle developed the theory of catastrophism - Answer️️ -Cuvier ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Thursday, August 22, 2024 1:01 AM DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE 2 believed that giraffes have long necks because their short-necked ancestors stretched their necks and passed this change on to their offspring - Answer️️ -Lamarck wrote Principles of Geology - Answer️️ -Lyell wrote an essay relating population size to competition for limited resources - Answer️️ -Malthus Which theory was helpful to Darwin in the formulation of his theory of evolution? a. inheritance of acquired characteristics b. catastrophism c. special creationism d. continental drift e. uniformitarianism - Answer️️ -e. uniformitarianism The feature of Darwin's finches that shows variation is a. feathers. b. feet. c. beaks. d. structure of eggs. e. all of these. - Answer️️ -c. beaks. ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Thursday, August 22, 2024 1:01 AM DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE 3 The operation of natural selection depends upon the fact that a. mutations are always harmful. b. acquired characteristics are inherited. c. reproduction of all members of a species is virtually the same. d. some individuals have a better chance to produce more offspring. e. the strong always survive, whereas the weak always die. - Answer️️ -d. some individuals have a better chance to produce more offspring. Which of the following evolve? a. both populations and genera b. populations c. genera d. populations, genera, and kingdoms e. kingdoms - Answer️️ -b. populations Fossils include a. seeds. b. tracks. c. shells. d. skeletons. ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Thursday, August 22, 2024 1:01 AM DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE 4 e. all of these. - Answer️️ -e. all of these. Radiometric dating a. is unpredictable because changes in temperature and pressure alter the results. b. is used for dating only recent fossils. c. is based on the premise that each isotope decays at a constant rate. d. can be used to date sedimentary rock. e. has a large error factor. - Answer️️ -c. is based on the premise that each isotope decays at a constant rate. The time it takes for half of a radioisotope's atoms to decay a. cannot be calculated. b. is the same for uranium 238 and carbon 14. c. is used to construct the geologic time scale. d. is its half-life. e. is all of these. - Answer️️ -d. is its half-life. The geologic time scale is subdivided on the basis of ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Thursday, August 22, 2024 1:01 AM DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE 5 a. the appearance of different radioactive isotopes in different strata. b. levels of background extinction. c. periods of mass extinction. d. the appearance of different radioactive isotopes in different strata and levels of background extinction. e. the appearance of different radioactive isotopes in different strata, levels of background extinction, and periods of mass extinction. - Answer️️ -c. periods of mass extinction. The large, ancient land mass that contained all the cont