Download "Voyage to the Galapagos "

"Voyage to the Galapagos "
As you watch the video, answer the following questions.
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1. Name the naturalist who traveled to the Galapagos Islands on the HMS Beagle in 1835.
2. Where are the Galapagos Islands?
3. Who are the most famous residents of the Galapagos?
4. How can you tell which island the individual tortoises come from?
5. What do the mockingbirds do for a territorial display?
6. Are all of the mockingbirds on one island exactly the same as those on the other islands? If
not, how do they differ?
7. What are "aboriginal creations?"
8. Were animals the only endemic species Darwin saw?
9. How did the species seen on the islands compare to those of South America?
10. How many different species of finches are there on the Galapagos Islands?
11. Darwin's finches are the classic example of what?
12. How are the finches different from one another?
13. When small seeds are plentiful one year, what do the beaks of the birds bom the following
year look like?
14. What happens to the offspring the following year if the seeds are larger?
15. The driving force of evolution is _______________ __________________.
16. More efficient eaters produce (more/less) offspring than the less efficient eaters.
17. How did the ancestors of the animals/plants on the Galapagos Islands get there?
18. What do the male marine iguanas do to attract the females?
19. Why are there so many small iguanas on one of the islands?
20. Why must the females be so careful about which male they choose?
21. Why will the female accept a smaller-sized male iguana some years?
22. What does the older masked booby do to his younger sibling?
23. What does the parent masked booby do in response to this?
24. Why in terms of natural selection does the mother benefit if one of her chicks kills the other?