Charles Darwin Review Test
Questions with Answers Revised
and Updated
Darwin gathered his early evidence of evolution from where? - Answer-Galapagos
Islands
In which type of species did Charles see remarkable differences in? - Answer-Finches
What is the name of the naturalist that helped urge Darwin to publish his book in 1859?
- Answer-Alfred Wallace
What was the name of the book Darwin published in 1859? - Answer-The Origin of
Species
A British naturalist, renowned for his theories of evolution and natural selection. -
Answer-Charles Darwin
Principle that each living species has descended, with changes, from other species over
time. - Answer-Descent with Modification
A trait that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce? - Answer-
Adaptation
When members of a species have different traits so that when they reproduce, the
offspring will have those traits as well as making more animals with that one trait. -
Answer-Variation
Charles Darwin concluded that the 13 species of what kind of bird evolved from one
ancestral South American species? - Answer-Finches
Darwin and Wallace's theory of evolution by natural selection failed to explain what? -
Answer-New genetic varieties can appear in population every generation
The evolution of one species into two or more species as a result of different
populations becoming reproductively isolated from each other is? - Answer-Adaptive
radiation
Determinism - Answer-The assumption that every event has physical, potentially
measurable, causes.
Questions with Answers Revised
and Updated
Darwin gathered his early evidence of evolution from where? - Answer-Galapagos
Islands
In which type of species did Charles see remarkable differences in? - Answer-Finches
What is the name of the naturalist that helped urge Darwin to publish his book in 1859?
- Answer-Alfred Wallace
What was the name of the book Darwin published in 1859? - Answer-The Origin of
Species
A British naturalist, renowned for his theories of evolution and natural selection. -
Answer-Charles Darwin
Principle that each living species has descended, with changes, from other species over
time. - Answer-Descent with Modification
A trait that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce? - Answer-
Adaptation
When members of a species have different traits so that when they reproduce, the
offspring will have those traits as well as making more animals with that one trait. -
Answer-Variation
Charles Darwin concluded that the 13 species of what kind of bird evolved from one
ancestral South American species? - Answer-Finches
Darwin and Wallace's theory of evolution by natural selection failed to explain what? -
Answer-New genetic varieties can appear in population every generation
The evolution of one species into two or more species as a result of different
populations becoming reproductively isolated from each other is? - Answer-Adaptive
radiation
Determinism - Answer-The assumption that every event has physical, potentially
measurable, causes.
