Georg Forster was the son of _____________.

• A) Johann Reinhold Forster
• B) None of the above
• C) Augustin de Candolle
• D) Joseph Banks

______ of the continents and islands of the Southern Hemisphere, and had suggested that these might be explained partly by the dispersal of floating seeds.

• A) none
• B) Both a and b
• C) Flora
• D) Fauna

A species that exists as a series of subspecific forms is termed a ______ Species.

• A) complex
• B) Polytypic
• C) none
• D) Monotypic

______ provides a rigorous methodology for analysing the patterns of evolutionary relationship between the different members of a group.

• A) naturalist
• B) cladistics
• C) biologist
• D) evolutionist

The species diversity increasing by a factor of ____ for every doubling of island area.

• A) 16
• B) 10
• C) 14
• D) 12

The species o _____ is found south of the River Congo and is hence separated from other chimpanzees by a formidable barrier to movement.

• A) chimpanzee
• B) sea gull
• C) herring gull
• D) bonobo

_____ recognized latitudinal gradients of diversity.

• A) Candolle
• B) Forster
• C) Linnaeus
• D) Humboldt

Danish botanist Joakim Schouw was the first to classify the world’s _____ and show the results on maps.

• A) both a and b
• B) fauna
• C) none
• D) flora

British geologist ______ argued that many lines of evidence suggested that the Earth must be many millions of years old.

• A) Hook
• B) Darwin
• C) Lamarck
• D) Lyell

Hekistotherms live in the _____ regions.

• A) southern
• B) polar
• C) arctic
• D) northern

According to _______, distribution of plants was closely linked to climate.

• A) geologist
• B) paleontologist
• C) ecologist
• D) botanist

To understand underlying patterns of distribution of organisms on our planet, ____ of species must be known.

• A) nature
• B) complexity
• C) diversity
• D) all

____is the demands that an organism places on its environment in terms of physical and chemical conditions, space and food supply.

• A) Habitat
• B) Temporal
• C) Space
• D) Niche

What are the plants and animals called that are confined to limited geographical area _______?

• A) Cosmopolitan
• B) Epidemic
• C) Endemic
• D) Endangered

_______ was employed at New National Museum of Natural History.

• A) Darwin
• B) Lamarck
• C) Crick
• D) Aristotle

______ was regarded as polytypic with about a dozen subspecies spread around the entire Northern Hemisphere.

• A) Penguin
• B) Sea Gull
• C) Herring Gull
• D) Eagle

The Theory of Island Biogeography was published in ____.

• A) 1867
• B) 1857
• C) 1957
• D) 1967

In each area, the local flora had been able to survive the Flood suggested by _____.

• A) ecologist
• B) botanist
• C) geologist
• D) zoologist

George Simpson, Karl Schmidt, George Myers who worked on _____ fishes.

• A) aquatic
• B) all
• C) marine
• D) freshwater

An organism`s role in its community is called as __________, and where it lives is called as _________.

• A) Niche; habitat
• B) Role in community; niche
• C) Habitat; niche
• D) Niche; role in the community