PCB 4674: EVOLUTION EXAM 1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
All living organisms on Earth are related through - ANSWER-Common Ancestry
Five-year voyage around the world. This ship sailed from England, around the tip of South America, to
the Galápagos Islands, around the southern coast of Australia and Af...
Particles could then be redeposited and form the layered pattern of rock we call - ANSWER✔✔-Strata
Hutton's ideas of geological strata and time depth rely on the assumption that the processes that occur
today are the same ones that have occurred in the past. This is known as ____________, an idea that is
widely accepted in all scientific fields today. - ANSWER✔✔-Uniformitarianism
Hutton's ideas were soon tested by the great geologist _______ ______ , who confirmed that it would
take millions, not thousands, of years for Earth's geological strata to form. Who lived in the late 18th,
early 19th centuries. - ANSWER✔✔-Charles Lyell
He invented the microscope and examined fossil wood under his new device. He noted that the cellular
structure of the fossil wood was the same as the wood that exists today. He lived in the 17th century. -
ANSWER✔✔-Robert Hooke
He proposed that fossils were from organisms that no longer existed. He also discovered that different
fossils could be found in different geological strata. He also proposed that different layers of strata
represent groups of organisms that had been wiped out in a series of catastrophic events. He lived in the
18th/19th century. - ANSWER✔✔-Georges Cuvier
Cuvier proposed evolution happened catastrophically, others proposed it happened slowly and gradually.
Although many lineage extinctions are not dramatic, there is growing evidence that there have been
______ _______ events. - ANSWER✔✔-Mass Extinction
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