Topic C- Animal Evolution

What is the genus and species name of the black rat?

What is the name for this method of naming organisms?

Why is this method more useful than for example just using the English name?

Describe two differences between mammals and fish?

What is the definition of a species?

What is natural selection?

What controls adaptations?

What is unusual about an extremophile?

The sludge worm is used as an indicator species – what does it mean if there are lots of these organisms?

Who introduced the theory of Natural Selection?

Over a long period of time what might natural selection produce?

Why were people at the time hostile to this theory?

What was the problem with Lamarck’s theory of evolution?

Why is whaling difficult to police

Describe how a conservation program could be set up so that they do not go extinct.

List ways in which whales are useful when alive and dead.

17. Some historians suggest that combustion of coal may have damaged the habitat of the dodo (an extinct bird). Name the 2 types of pollution that combustion of coal causes and describe how an indicator species could be used to detect one of these types of pollution

Why is the grey squirrel causing the red squirrel to become endangered?

What does the term ecological niche mean?

Competition is one example of interdependence between organisms. Use examples to describe and explain one other types of interdependence either PARASITISM or MUTUALISM.