Biogeography Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Persistent themes in biogeography - CORRECT ANSWER - Classifying geographic
regions based on their biota
Persistent themes in biogeography - CORRECT ANSWER - Reconstructing the historical
development of biotas
Persistent themes in biogeography - CORRECT ANSWER - Explaining geographic
variation in the characteristics of individuals and populations of closely related species
Carolus Linnaeus - CORRECT ANSWER - came up with binomial nomenclature
believed life originated or survived a great flood on Mount Ararat
Georges-Louis Leclerc,Comte de Buffon - CORRECT ANSWER - Believed origin of
species migrated south
Buffons law
Buffons law - CORRECT ANSWER - Environmentally similar but isolated regions have
distinct assemblages of mammals and birds
Sir Joseph Banks - CORRECT ANSWER - supported buffons law and found exception
Cosmopolitan species
Johann Reinhold Forster - CORRECT ANSWER - Buffons law also true for plants
Observed decline of plant diversity near poles
Alexander von Humboldt - CORRECT ANSWER - Generalized buffons law to include
plants and most terrestrial animals
, Floristic Belts
Augustin P. de Candolle - CORRECT ANSWER - Said organisms compete for resources
3 important advances - CORRECT ANSWER - A better estimate of the age of the earth
3 important advances - CORRECT ANSWER - A better understanding of the dynamic
nature of the continents and oceans
3 important advances - CORRECT ANSWER - A better understanding of the mechanisms
involved in the spread and diversification of species
Adolphe Brongniart - CORRECT ANSWER - Paleobotanist that demonstrated extinctions
in the fossil record
Charles Lyell - CORRECT ANSWER - Geologist documented change in sea levels and
used fossil record, believed that species were not mutable
Charles Darwin - CORRECT ANSWER - Origin of species, Patterns of variability in the
Galapagos
Joseph Dalton Hooker - CORRECT ANSWER - Confirmed Forster, drew analogy between
flora of ocean islands and high mountains, more isolation=species decrease
Philip Lutley Scalter - CORRECT ANSWER - Six biogeographic regions still in use today
Alfred Russel Wallace - CORRECT ANSWER - Wallace's line, six biogeographical
regions
Wallaces 6 Biogeographical regions - CORRECT ANSWER - Palaeractic
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Persistent themes in biogeography - CORRECT ANSWER - Classifying geographic
regions based on their biota
Persistent themes in biogeography - CORRECT ANSWER - Reconstructing the historical
development of biotas
Persistent themes in biogeography - CORRECT ANSWER - Explaining geographic
variation in the characteristics of individuals and populations of closely related species
Carolus Linnaeus - CORRECT ANSWER - came up with binomial nomenclature
believed life originated or survived a great flood on Mount Ararat
Georges-Louis Leclerc,Comte de Buffon - CORRECT ANSWER - Believed origin of
species migrated south
Buffons law
Buffons law - CORRECT ANSWER - Environmentally similar but isolated regions have
distinct assemblages of mammals and birds
Sir Joseph Banks - CORRECT ANSWER - supported buffons law and found exception
Cosmopolitan species
Johann Reinhold Forster - CORRECT ANSWER - Buffons law also true for plants
Observed decline of plant diversity near poles
Alexander von Humboldt - CORRECT ANSWER - Generalized buffons law to include
plants and most terrestrial animals
, Floristic Belts
Augustin P. de Candolle - CORRECT ANSWER - Said organisms compete for resources
3 important advances - CORRECT ANSWER - A better estimate of the age of the earth
3 important advances - CORRECT ANSWER - A better understanding of the dynamic
nature of the continents and oceans
3 important advances - CORRECT ANSWER - A better understanding of the mechanisms
involved in the spread and diversification of species
Adolphe Brongniart - CORRECT ANSWER - Paleobotanist that demonstrated extinctions
in the fossil record
Charles Lyell - CORRECT ANSWER - Geologist documented change in sea levels and
used fossil record, believed that species were not mutable
Charles Darwin - CORRECT ANSWER - Origin of species, Patterns of variability in the
Galapagos
Joseph Dalton Hooker - CORRECT ANSWER - Confirmed Forster, drew analogy between
flora of ocean islands and high mountains, more isolation=species decrease
Philip Lutley Scalter - CORRECT ANSWER - Six biogeographic regions still in use today
Alfred Russel Wallace - CORRECT ANSWER - Wallace's line, six biogeographical
regions
Wallaces 6 Biogeographical regions - CORRECT ANSWER - Palaeractic
