Possible Final Questions

• Interpreting geographical distribution based primarily on genetic analysis is___

• ____ is not a type of tectonic activity

• Conditions in sister areas where a difference in numbers of species exists refers to ___

• Long-distance dispersal is also referred to _____ dispersal

• A type of long-distance dispersal that is a stochastic (random) process is ____ dispersal

• According to Holt, tropical Mexico is part of the _______ geographic region

• ___ is part of the Neotropical geographic region.

• Ecological Biogeography describes ____ aspects of geographic distributional patterns.

• Plate tectonics is another term used to describe movements associated with ______.

• Young Earth Creationists believe that the earth is only about _____ years old.

• Ontogeny refers to _______

• Remnants of past life are _____

• A(n) _____ connects otherwise separated landmasses

• Australia is part of Schmidt’s Notogaea biogeographic ______.

• Which type of biogeographic theory refers to passive movements of landforms on its tectonic plates?

• Biogeographic lines are borders between the biota of biogeographic regions.

• Nearctic of Wallace’s Biogeographic Regions includes arctic North America.

• An archipelago is a chain of oceanic islands

• Anagenesis refers to a species evolving into another without a genetic split.

• Stochastic refers to a random (chance) event.

• Microevolution is gene frequency changes in population traits already present.

• Speciation is only caused by natural selection.

• Young Earth Creationists believe that the Earth is not as old as science predicts.

• Old Earth Creations believe evolution produced biodiversity as is shown today.