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The person who first accurately described fossils as remnants of things that lived in the past was
-Charles Lyell
-Nicola Steno
-GeorgesCuvier
-James Hutton
Nicola Steno
The "watchmaker analogy" is most closely associated with
-Alfred Russell Wallace
-Thomas Mallthus
-Richard Owen
-Charles Darwin
-William Paley
William Paley
Thomas Malthus is best known for his idea that
-nature is best viewed as a hierarchy, where each organism exists on a "rung in a ladder"
-binomial nomenclature
-more offspring are produced in any generation than can possibly survive
-change happens slowly over vast amounts of time
more offspring are produced in any generation than can possibly survive
Which of the following is false regarding scientific inquiry?
-experiments must be performed
-a hypothesis needs to be testable
-a hypothesis needs to be falsifiable
-conclusions are tentative
experiments must be performed
Charles Darwin got what kind of degree at university?
-divinity
-law
-business
-biology
divinity
The HMS Beagle spent most of its five year voyage
-mapping the coast of S. America
-in Australiain
-the Galapagos Islands
-collecting specimens in Africa.
mapping the coast of S. America
The scientist who first proved that extinction took place is
-Georges Cuvier
-William Paley
-Richard Owen
-Jean Baptiste Lamark
-Nicola Steno
Georges Cuvier
Which of the following scientist(s) actually believed in some form of evolutionary change in organisms?
-Nicola Steno
-Carl von Linnae (Linnaeus)
-William Paley
-Jean Baptiste Lamark
Jean Baptiste Lamark
The Origin of Species was published in what year?
-1835
-1809
-1859
-1882
-1831
1859
The idea that studying processes happening now can help us understand the past is the idea of
-idealism
-evolution
-homology
-uniformitarianism
-gradualism
uniformitarianism
A theory, to a scientist is
-an idea that awaits testing by experimentation or observation
-the opinion of some expert in a field
-an overarching body of knowledge, consisting of facts, observations, and tested hypotheses
-the same as a hypothesis
an overarching body of knowledge, consisting of facts, observations, and tested hypotheses
The idea of homology is most closely associated with
-Richard Owen
-Carl von Linnae
-CharlesDarwin
-Alfred Russell Wallace
Richard Owen
Living species tend to have related fossil species that can be found in strata of the same geographic area. This is a good description of
-natural selection
-vestigial traits
-the Law of Superposition
-the Law of Succession
the Law of Succession
Darwin noticed that offspring tend to ___________ their parents and that this was _______________.
-differ from, a random process
-differ from, heritable
-resemble, heritable
-resemble, a random process
resemble, heritable
In science we prefer parsimonious explanations. This means the explanation should be
-the simplest one
-the coolest one
-the one that seems the most intuitive
-the most complicated one
the simplest one
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