Name: ___________________________ Date: _______________Period: ____

Evolution Test (Chapter 15 all, 16 all, 17-1 and 17-4) Test Date: ___________To prepare for the test over Chapters 15-17, you should read the chapters, review your notes, study the warm ups, and any assignments we worked on during this time. Any words you do not know the meaning of, you should look up in the glossary of your book.

1. The founder of the Modern Scientific Theory of Evolution is considered to be _______________.2. Define Scientific Theory_____________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________3. Describe the following people’s influence on Darwin’s thinking and their major scientific contributions

a. Charles Lyell

b. Thomas Malthus

4. Define the word species______________________________________________________________________________________.5. How did speciation occur in the Galapagos finches? _______________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Darwin’s Theory can be summarized by several statements. Describe each statement and give an example of each.

Statement Description ExampleOrganisms differ and variations are inheritable

Organisms produce more offspring that can surviveSurvival of the Fittest

Descent with Modification

7. The diagram above best illustrates a. Lamark’s theory of Biological Evolution. b. Darwin’s Theory of Biological Evolution. c. Lamark’s theory of Acquired Traits. d. Lyell’s theory of changes in the earth would affect life.

8. Give an example for each word and explain it.a. Natural Selection -___________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________b. Biological Fitness___________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________c. Morphology-_______________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________d. Physiology-________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________e. Common ancestry-___________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________f. Selective pressure-___________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________g. Biological diversity-_________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________

9. What adaptation does this organism have that makes it well-suited to its environment? _____________________________10. What is the title of Darwin’s most famous publication? ________________________________________________________11. How could you identify if two organisms are members of the same species or different species? _________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________12. Name and explain the five major types of evidence that support the theory of biological evolution.

Name Description

13. Complete the following table.

Structures Identify whether the picture represents vestigial, homologous

or analogous structures.

Why are they considered vestigial, homologous or analogous?

Letter C indicates the pelvic bone and the under developed legs in the Baleen whale.

1._____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Compare the two wings.

2._______________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Compare each shaded bone

3. ________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

14. Which type of structure indicates common ancestry? ____________________________

15. There are two sources of genetic variation. List and describe them. a.

b.

16. What is the relative frequency of an allele in a population? ________________________________________________________

17. A change in allele frequencies over time leads to ________evolution. (Choose micro- or macro-)

18. What is a polygenic trait? (Review Chapter 16 and notes)

19. The distribution of a polygenic trait will form a _______- shaped curve, as shown to the right.

20. What is being plotted on the x- axis? _____________________and y- axes _______________________?

21. There are three kinds of selection on a polygenic trait. Look at the following graphs and identify i.Type of selection, ii. How is the population changing?

a. b. c.

22. Define speciation. ______________________________________________________________________________________________

23. What kind of isolation must occur for speciation to take place? __________________________________________________________

24. What selective pressure created the different species of finches below? ____________________________________________________

25. Darwin hypothesized that the finches had come from a ______________________ from the mainland and through the process called _______________________ the birds developed specialized beaks to survive on different islands with different food sources.

26. Study the table above and identify the common name of the finch that most likely survive a major drought? _______________________________

27. There are three kinds of Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms. List and describe them. Give one example for each.

Reproductive Isolating Mechanism

Description Example

Geographic

Temporal

Behavioral

28. _______________ are preserved remains of ancient organisms.

29. In _______________________ dating scientists calculate the actual age of a fossil based on the amount of radioactive isotopes it contains.

30. Relative dating involves _____________________________________________________________________________________.

Type of Selection____________How is the population changing?_____ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Type of Selection___________How is the population changing?_____ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Type of Selection: _________________How is the population changing? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

31. List two reasons organisms become extinct. a. _________________________b. _________________________

32. Pattern of evolution in which long stable periods are interrupted by brief periods of more rapid change is called___________________________________________.

33. ___________________ is a process by which a single species evolves into many different forms over a period of time.

34. Define – Extinction_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Ex.____________________________

35. Define- Convergent Evolution_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Ex.____________________________

36. Define- Coevolution_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Ex.____________________________

35. According to Figure 14-4, the correct chronological order of organisms as they develop is _____.

a. birds, dinosaurs, jawed fish, prokaryotesb. dinosaurs, jawed fish, birds, prokaryotesc. jawed fish, dinosaurs, prokaryotes, birdsd. prokaryotes, jawed fish, dinosaurs, bird

36. What numbered layer of sediment contains the oldest fossils in the picture to the right? ________

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3.

2.