Continental Drift and Allopatric Speciation

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Which process can lead to allopatric speciation?

  • Continental drift (correct)
  • Unfavorable environmental change
  • Mass extinctions
  • Habitat destruction

Where can a high number of frog species be found as a result of continental drift?

  • Madagascar (correct)
  • North America
  • South America
  • India/Southeast Asia

What can cause extinction?

  • Habitat destruction
  • Unfavorable environmental change
  • Continental drift
  • All of the above (correct)

What has caused the rate of extinction to increase dramatically at times?

<p>Global environmental change (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What can result from a dramatic increase in the rate of extinction?

<p>Mass extinctions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the total number of surviving genera?

<p>Residual genera (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the rate of extinction?

<p>Mass extinction rate (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What can cause mass extinctions?

<p>All of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What can increase the rate of extinction?

<p>Global environmental change (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the diversity of life?

<p>Biodiversity (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which event defines the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?

<p>The Permian extinction (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What percentage of marine animal species went extinct during the Permian extinction?

<p>96% (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

When did the Cretaceous mass extinction occur?

<p>66 million years ago (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the evidence of a large meteorite collision that occurred around 66 million years ago?

<p>The Chicxulub crater (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the estimated current rate of extinction compared to the typical background rate?

<p>100 to 1,000 times higher (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the likely outcome if no dramatic action is taken to prevent it?

<p>A sixth, human-caused mass extinction (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the presence of iridium in sedimentary rocks suggest?

<p>The Chicxulub crater impact (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the significance of the Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico?

<p>It is evidence of a large meteorite collision (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the key factor that would have disturbed the global climate during the meteorite impact?

<p>The debris clouds caused by the impact (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which era does the Permian extinction separate?

<p>Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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