ABEKA BIOLOGY: GOD'S LIVING CREATION TEST 9 (NINE WEEKS EXAM) 100%Accurate!!

large geographic region identified by its climax vegetation and distinctive animal life - ANSWER biome sudden outburst of living things of great variety in the fossil record, showing no evidence of evolution - ANSWER Cambrian explosion what is NOT one of the three main groups into which mammals are divided based on how they reproduce - ANSWER pholidotans the principle that animals or plants well suited to their environment are more likely to survive than organisms poorly suited to their environment - ANSWER natural selection British naturalist that was primarily responsible for popularizing the idea that all life evolved from a common ancestor - ANSWER Charles Darwin belief that livings things can arise from nonliving things - ANSWER spontaneous generation stiff quill of a feather - ANSWER rachis region of an egg yolk where the embryo develops - ANSWER germinal spot heat-sensitive organ that allows some viperids to "see" warm objects in absolute darkness - ANSWER pit organs slender, burrowing, wormlike amphibians that lack legs and are seldom seen by man - ANSWER caecilians what is NOT a characteristic common to all vertebrates? - ANSWER four appendages why is natural selection unable to produce new kinds? - ANSWER variety within kinds has definite limits, natural selection acts to preserve existing kinds, transitional forms would be unfit to survive French scientist that conclusively demonstrated that not even the simplest organisms can develop from nonliving matter - ANSWER Louis Pasteur "occupation" or function of an organism in an ecosystem - ANSWER niche odd-toed hoofed mammal that resembles a pig with a long snout or short trunk - ANSWER tapir