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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 devel...

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DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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 - Answer✔️✔️-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. - Answer✔️✔️-c. a vestigial feature.

natural historian and author; early ideas of Chain of Being -
Answer✔️✔️-Aristotle

developed the theory of catastrophism - Answer✔️✔️-Cuvier



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believed that giraffes have long necks because their short-necked
ancestors stretched their necks and passed this change on to their
offspring - Answer✔️✔️-Lamarck

wrote Principles of Geology - Answer✔️✔️-Lyell

wrote an essay relating population size to competition for limited
resources - Answer✔️✔️-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 - Answer✔️✔️-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. - Answer✔️✔️-c. beaks.



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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. -
Answer✔️✔️-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 - Answer✔️✔️-b. populations

Fossils include

a. seeds.

b. tracks.

c. shells.

d. skeletons.



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e. all of these. - Answer✔️✔️-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. - Answer✔️✔️-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. - Answer✔️✔️-d. is its half-life.

The geologic time scale is subdivided on the basis of




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