B7 Practice Questions 10.9 – Vertebrates & the origin of new species – Biologie · Chemie · Medien

Welcome to your B7 Practice Questions 10.9 – Vertebrates & the origin of new species

1.

What do all vertebrates have?

a backbone

feathers

gills

scales

2.

Fish have throughout their life.

3.

The eggs of fish have no shells and are laid in water.

True

False

4.

The larvae of amphibians are called .

5.

What is metamorphosis?

breathing with gills and lungs at the same time

changing from a larva to an adult with a different body form

laying eggs with soft shells

6.

Tadpoles have gills for gas exchange, but adult amphibians have .

7.

Amphibians are vertebrates with scaly skin.

True

False

8.

Reptiles lay eggs with but waterproof shells.

9.

Which islands did Darwin study in 1835?

the Canary Islands

the British Isles

the Galapagos Islands

10.

Today different species of finches live on the Galapagos Islands.

11.

Living things produce more offspring than are needed to keep their species going.

True

False

12.

Darwin called the constant competition between living things the "struggle for ".

13.

What is a population?

all individuals of a species in a limited area

all species living on one continent

the genes of one single animal

14.

When the genes of the mother and the father are mixed in sexual reproduction, this is called .

15.

Which factors are necessary for new species to form?

only mutation

only isolation

mutation, selection and isolation

16.

The green woodpecker and the grey woodpecker can no longer reproduce with each other. Two new have formed.