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This engaging Biology review covers topics such as Evolution, Natural Selection, Fossils, Biodiversity, and Ecology. Learn about the principles of natural selection, fossil evidence supporting evolution, ecological niches, and more. Test your knowledge with Jeopardy-style questions and answers, and delve into key concepts essential for understanding the intricate world of biology.
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Biology SpringSemester Review Evolution Natural Selection Fossils Biodiversity Ecology Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
$100 Question Evolution Overproduction of offspring is a good thing because
$100 Answer from Evolution It raises the chance that some will survive, results in competition between offspring for resources so strongest and fittest survive
$200 Question from Evolution What type of evidence have scientists used to support the scientific consensus of evolution?
$200 Answer from Evolution Fossils Geography Embryology Anatomy
$300 Question from Evolution • What term describes the theory that natural disasters • Shaped the Earth’s landforms and caused species • To become? • Gradualism • Uniformitarianism • Catastrophism • Evolution
$300 Answer from Evolution c. Castatrophism
$400 Question fromEvolution What must be true of two Individuals of the same speices?
$400 Answer Evolution They can reproduce and have fertile offspring
$500 Question from Evolution What theory of geologic change is Accepted by today’s scientists?
$500 Answer from Evolution Uniformitarianism
$100 Question Natural Selection • Which of the following is NOT • A main principle of the theory of • Natural selection? • Variation • Adaptation • Overproduction • Sexual reproduction
$100 Answer from Natural Selection d. Sexual Reproduction
$200 Question from Natural Selection How do artificial selection and Natural selection differ?
$300 Question Natural Selection • In natural selection, the environment • acts as the selecting agent
$300 Question Natural SelectionCan natural selection causevariations?
$300 Answer Natural SelectionNo, natural selection works onlyon existing variations
$400 Question from Natural SelectionAn isolated population of bats goesThrough 100 generations with no Immigration. However, geneticVariation within the populationIncreases. How?
$400 Answer Natural SelectionNatural selection acts on the genotypes
$500 Question Natural Selection Elimination of a species from Earth is called…
$500 Answer Natural Selection Extinction
$100 Question Fossils What was not commonly believed In the 1700s?
$100 Answer Fossils Fossils are traces of organisms that lived in the past
$200 Question Fossils • In which rock layer would you expect to • Find the most primitive fossils? • Top • Middle • Bottom
$200 AnswerFossil c. Bottom
$300 Question Fossils What is a transitional fossil?
$300 AnswerFossils A fossil that has characteristics Of two groups of organisms
$400 Question Fossils Why is most fossil record incomplete?
$400 Answer Fossils Most organisms don’t form fossils after they die
$500 Question Fossils Suppose scientists found a fossil of a dinosaur That had feathers. What evolutionary information can be inferred from this fossil?
$500 Answer Fossils Birds and reptiles have a common ancestor
$100 QuestionBiodiversity Omnivores eat….?
$100 Answer Biodiversity Meat and plants
$200 Question Biodiversity Name three abiotic factors.
$200 Answer Biodiversity Rocks Air Water Weather
$300 Question Biodiversity • Which of the following groups is most important • For ringing energy into an ecosystem? • Consumers • Producers • Decomposers • Generalists
$300 Answer Biodiversity b. Producers
$400 Question Biodiversity What are the three parts of an ecological niche?
$400 Answer Biodiversity Food, Abiotic conditions, Behavior
$500 Question Biodiversity In the carbon cycle, through what process does carbon move from an abiotic resource into organic matter?
$500 Answer Biodiversity d. Photosynthesis
$100 Question Ecology • Which of the following most directly • Played a role in the human population • Growth of the 20th century? • Improved transportation which • increased migration • b. Improved health, which decreased death rates
$100 Answer Ecology • Improved transportation • which increased migration
$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….
$200 Answer Ecology Leads to higher global temperatures
$300 Question Ecology Biodiversity is important to Humans because…
$300 Answer Ecology A loss of diversity could mean a loss of food, medicine, and economic activity.
$400 Question Ecology An indicator species is a species that…
$400 Answer Ecology Reveals what types of pollutants are in the ecosystem
$500 Question Ecology What is the difference between weather and climate?
