6. What author does this theory belong to? 'The differential reproduction and survival of individuals carrying alternative trails'
Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
Charles Darwin
Georges Cuvier
Georges Buffon
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
7. What 18th century development enabled the accurate mapping of the world?
Robert Fitzroy's founding of the Meteorological Service
The voyages of Captain James cook
John Harrison's clock
Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift
8. Carolus Linnaeus is considered the father of taxonomy. He devised the hierarchical and binomial system of naming organisms still in use today. For modern humans, which is the correct order of Domain; Kingdom; Phylum; Class; Order; Family; Genus;Speci
9. Is Competition an abiotic or a biotic factor in an ecosystem?
biotic
abiotic
10. Augustine de Candolle made the first distinction between the two great sub-disciplines of Biogeography: 1) The long (geological) timescales operating at continual-global spatial scales. Often concerned with larger units of biological classification
Historical
Ecological
11. What author does this theory belong to? 'Noted faunistic differences and similarities between regions of similar climate'
eorges Buffon
Charles Darwin
Georges Cuvier
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
12. 2) The short (seasonal) timescales operating at habitat, local or intracontinental that affect the geographic distribution of living plants and animals is called (????) biogeography
Ecological
Historical
13. What author does this theory belong to? 'Large fossil mammals extinct due a catastrophic event'
Charles Darwin
Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
Georges Cuvier
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Georges Buffon
14. Is pH an abiotic or a biotic factor in an ecosystem?
Abiotic
Biotic
15. What author does this theory belong to? 'Organisms have an 'inherent tendency' to improve'
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Georges Buffon
Charles Darwin
Georges Cuvier
Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
16. What author does this theory belong to? 'Organs in different taxa may be homologous;same construction; different function (e.g. hand and fin).'