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Biology Spring Semester Review Evolution Natural Selection FossilsBiodiversity Ecology Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
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$100 Question Evolution Overproduction of offspring is a good thing because
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$100 Answer from Evolution It raises the chance that some will survive, results in competition between offspring for resources so strongest and fittest survive
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$200 Question from Evolution What type of evidence have scientists used to support the scientific consensus of evolution?
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$200 Answer from Evolution Fossils Geography Embryology Anatomy
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$300 Question from Evolution What term describes the theory that natural disasters Shaped the Earth’s landforms and caused species To become? a.Gradualism b.Uniformitarianism c.Catastrophism d.Evolution
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$300 Answer from Evolution c. Castatrophism
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$400 Question from Evolution What must be true of two Individuals of the same speices?
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$400 Answer Evolution They can reproduce and have fertile offspring
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$500 Question from Evolution What theory of geologic change is Accepted by today’s scientists?
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$500 Answer from Evolution Uniformitarianism
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$100 Question Natural Selection Which of the following is NOT A main principle of the theory of Natural selection? a.Variation b.Adaptation c.Overproduction d.Sexual reproduction
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$100 Answer from Natural Selection d. Sexual Reproduction
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$200 Question from Natural Selection How do artificial selection and Natural selection differ?
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d.In natural selection, the environment acts as the selecting agent $300 Question Natural Selection
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$300 Question Natural Selection Can natural selection cause variations?
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$300 Answer Natural Selection No, natural selection works only on existing variations
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$400 Question from Natural Selection An isolated population of bats goes Through 100 generations with no Immigration. However, genetic Variation within the population Increases. How?
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$400 Answer Natural Selection Natural selection acts on the genotypes
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$500 Question Natural Selection Elimination of a species from Earth is called…
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$500 Answer Natural Selection Extinction
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$100 Question Fossils What was not commonly believed In the 1700s?
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$100 Answer Fossils Fossils are traces of organisms that lived in the past
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$200 Question Fossils In which rock layer would you expect to Find the most primitive fossils? a.Top b.Middle c.Bottom
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$200 Answer Fossil c. Bottom
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$300 Question Fossils What is a transitional fossil?
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$300 Answer Fossils A fossil that has characteristics Of two groups of organisms
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$400 Question Fossils Why is most fossil record incomplete?
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$400 Answer Fossils Most organisms don’t form fossils after they die
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$500 Question Fossils Suppose scientists found a fossil of a dinosaur That had feathers. What evolutionary information can be inferred from this fossil?
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$500 Answer Fossils Birds and reptiles have a common ancestor
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$100 Question Biodiversity Omnivores eat….?
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$100 Answer Biodiversity Meat and plants
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$200 Question Biodiversity Name three abiotic factors.
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$200 Answer Biodiversity Rocks Air Water Weather
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$300 Question Biodiversity Which of the following groups is most important For ringing energy into an ecosystem? a.Consumers b.Producers c.Decomposers d.Generalists
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$300 Answer Biodiversity b. Producers
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$400 Question Biodiversity What are the three parts of an ecological niche?
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$400 Answer Biodiversity Food, Abiotic conditions, Behavior
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$500 Question Biodiversity In the carbon cycle, through what process does carbon move from an abiotic resource into organic matter?
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$500 Answer Biodiversity d. Photosynthesis
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$100 Question Ecology Which of the following most directly Played a role in the human population Growth of the 20 th century? a.Improved transportation which increased migration b. Improved health, which decreased death rates
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$100 Answer Ecology a.Improved transportation which increased migration
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$200 Question Ecology CO2 is important to our atmosphere Because it is required for photosynthesis And it traps some heat to keep the Earth warm However, human produced CO2 is a problem Because it….
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$200 Answer Ecology Leads to higher global temperatures
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$300 Question Ecology Biodiversity is important to Humans because…
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$300 Answer Ecology A loss of diversity could mean a loss of food, medicine, and economic activity.
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$400 Question Ecology An indicator species is a species that…
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$400 Answer Ecology Reveals what types of pollutants are in the ecosystem
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$500 Question Ecology What is the difference between weather and climate?
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$500 Answer Ecology Weather is day-to-day temperature, precipitation and wind; climate is long-term patterns of temp, precip and wind.
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Final Jeopardy A Frog jumps into a pond and it’s skin absorbs water. What spheres has the water moved through?
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Final Jeopardy Answer Hydrosphere and Biosphere
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