types of behaviors to attract mates

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                   PRE-AP BIOLOGY: CLASSIFICATION EXAM

   1) Which of the following eras is often called the "Age of Reptiles"?
        A) late Precambrian
        B) Permian
        C) Paleozoic
        D) Mesozoic
        E) Cenozoic

   2) Frequently, a group of related species will each have a unique courtship ritual
         that must be performed correctly for both partners to be willing to mate. Such
         a ritual constitutes a type of
          A) postzygotic barrier.
         B) behavioral isolating mechanism.
         C) mechanical isolating mechanism.
         D) postzygotic barrier and behavioral isolating mechanism.
         E) postzygotic barrier and mechanical isolating mechanism.

           3) The earliest known flowering plants date to the
           A) Cambrian.
           B) Cenozoic.
           C) Mesozoic.
           D) Paleozoic.
           E) Oligocene.

4) When the continent of Pangaea first split apart, it formed
A) a northern landmass called Gondwana and a southern landmass called Laurasia.
B) a northern landmass called Laurasia and a southern landmass called Gondwana.
C) a western landmass corresponding to North and South America and an eastern
landmass corresponding to the other modern continents.
D) a western landmass corresponding to North and South America, an eastern landmass
corresponding to Eurasia, and a southern landmass corresponding to Africa, Australia,
India, and Antarctica.
E) an array of landmasses similar to the current ones but more compact.

5) Which of the following lines of evidence suggests that lungfishes evolved while
Pangaea was intact?
A) modern lungfishes on different continents show similar patterns of behavior
B) lungfishes are found today in Africa, Australia, and South America
C) fossil lungfishes have been found on every continent except Antarctica
D) All of the choices are correct.
E) None of the choices are correct.

6) Geologists call the forces within Earth that cause movements of the crust
A) volcanism.
B) plate tectonics.
C) mantle activity.
D) reorganizational events.
E) geomagnetism.

7) Mass extinctions
A) are typically followed by explosive increases in diversity.
B) have occurred only twice in the history of life on Earth.
C) appear to be caused only by asteroid impacts.
D) are associated with periods of rapid animal migrations onto new continents.
E) All of the choices are correct.

8) Which of the following factors may have contributed to the Cretaceous mass
extinctions?
A) cooling of the climate due to continental drift
B) an extraterrestrial impact
C) increased volcanic activity
D) All of the choices are correct.
E) None of the choices are correct.

9) How many periods of mass extinction have occurred in the last 600 million years?
A) one
B) two
C) four
D) six
E) eight



10) Which of the following choices lists taxonomic categories in order from most
specific to most general?
A) genus, family, class, order, phylum
B) genus, phylum, family, order, class
C) genus, family, order, class, phylum
D) family, genus, order, phylum, class
E) family, genus, class, order, phylum


11) Which of these domains includes prokaryotic cells?
A) Protista
B) Eukarya
C) Monera
D) Archaea
E) Fungi
12) Speciation can occur as a result of reproductive isolation. Reproductive
isolation(BARRIER) can occur when individuals in two populations of organisms
A) can't mate with each other because mating occurs at different times.
B) mate with each other but produce offspring that are nonviable.
C) use different types of behaviors to attract mates.
D) have anatomical features that make it difficult for organisms from the different
populations to mate and transfer sex cells.
E) All of the choices are correct.

13) Which of the following types of reproductive barriers separates a pair of species that
could interbreed except that one mates at dusk and the other at dawn? Different mating
times!!
A) temporal isolation
B) habitat isolation
C) behavioral isolation
D) mechanical isolation
E) gametic isolation

14. Speciation without geographic isolation is called __________ speciation.
A) diversifying
B) allopatric
C) pseudogeographic
D) sympatric
E) adaptive

15) The likelihood of allopatric speciation increases when a population is __________ and __________
the broader range of the species.
A) small . . . isolated from
B) large . . . nearby
C) large . . . isolated from
D) small . . . nearby
E) large . . . continuous with

16) Two species that sometimes mate and produce vigorous, sterile offspring are separated by
A) gametic isolation.
B) hybrid sterility.
C) hybrid inviability.
D) hybrid breakdown.
E) hybrid competition.




HINT: The word phenotype associates with PHYSICAL make-up!!!