Supposedly there is one answer for each of these that is correct or, at least, is the best answer. Which?
1. Plants and animals first became established on land during
the ______ .
A. early Proterozoic Eon
D. mid Paleozoic Era
B. late Proterozoic Eon
E. late Paleozoic Era
C. early Paleozoic Era
2. Many evolutionary biologists think that evolution occurs in
spurts. This theory of evolution is called _________ .
A. adaptive evolution
D. punctuated equilibrium
B. coevolution
E. convergent evolution
C. gradualism
3. How is the merging of continents to form Pangaea believed to have
altered the Earth's environments at that time?
A. Resulted in decreased shorelines so that algae were forced to evolve
onto land and become plants.
B. It changed the pattern of ocean currents, which in turn affected
climates on land. And produced more large, cold and dry continental area.
C. Increased the shoreline so that more evolution occurred among
early segmented worms
D. It made inland climates milder
E. Both A. and B. are true
4. The flowering plants first evolved during the _________ era (or eon)?
A. archeozoic B. proterozoic
C. paleozoic D. mesozoic
E. cenozoic
5. Leeches are members of which animal phylum?
A. segmented worms B. mollusks
C. arthropods D. velvet worms
E. water bears
6. Which group of insects is the most numerous animal group on earth
today?
A. dragon flies
B. ants C. ear wigs
D. beetles
E. bees
7. Which group of insects were one of the earliest predators that "took
to the air" during the late Paleozoic Era, in the early vascular plant
forests?
A. dragon flies
B. ants C. ear wigs
D. beetles
E. bees
8. The type of life cycle seen in all plants is called __________
.
A. haplodiploidy
B. gametophyte production
C. alternation of generations
D. seed production
E. cyclic reproduction
9. Which part of the life cycle does a pollen grain represent?
A. a spore
D. a male sporangium
B. a sperm cell
E. a male sporophyte
C. a male gametophyte
10. Which of the following types of plants dominates most of the world's
land areas today?
A. angiosperms
D. cycads
B. gymnosperms
E. club mosses
C. mosses
11. Which part of the moss has one-celled leaves?
A. protonema
D. sporophyte
B. adult gametophyte
E. sporangium
C. archegonium
12. Which of the following economically important products come from
gymnosperms?
A. citric acid B. wood
C. soy sauce
D. cotton E. pine
fruits
13. Which of the following adaptations to a terrestrial existence is
(are) found in all ferns?
1. spores that
disperse without the need for water
2. a female
gametophyte that remains enclosed in the sporangium
3. a mechanism
for uniting gametes that eliminates the need for water
A. 1 B.
2 C. 3
D. all of these E. both
1 and 3
14. What does the lichen algal partner provide the mutualistic
association?
A. Fungi B. Water
C. nucleic acid D. minerals
E. carbohydrate
15. Early vascular plants (Club Mosses, Horsetails and Ferns) present
in the Carboniferous Period of the Paleozoic (towards the end of this Era)
can be compared in terms of size and commonness to the plants classified
in these same phyla that exist on the earth today. How?
A. they were much smaller and less dominant in environments
B. they were much smaller but more dominant in environments
C. they were much larger but less dominant in environments
D. they were much larger and more dominant in environments
E. they occupied the same level of dominance as today's versions,
and were about the same size
16. What feature(s) of animals shows up widely in the fossil record
beginning in the Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era?
A. protostomes
D. teeth
B. jointed appendages
E. shells and skeletons
C. brain cases
17. True / False? All of the phyla classified as Fungus-like
Protista are closely related and represent fomrs in the direct evolutionary
line to the true fungi (kingdom Fungi).
A. True
B. False
18. A yeast is ______ .
A. a mycelium
D. an unicellular fungus
B. a protozoan
E. a unicellular alga
C. a fungal protistan
19. A mushroom is to a mycelium as ________ (choose the analogy that
best expresses the biological relationship between these two structures).
A. a lichen fungus is to its alga
B. a larval insect is to its adult stage
C. an apple is to an apple tree
D. a tree is to its mycorrhiza
E. a flower is to its bee
20. Insects are said to be built upside down, inside out and backwards
relative to human beings. What feature of their development and/or
organization makes them "upside down"?
A. position of the anus
B. position of the skeleton
C. position of the nerve cord relative to the gut
D. position of the mouth parts relative to the eyes
E. position of the wings relative to the feet
Answers to these questions can be found HERE.