1) How many species of kakariki are shown on this phylogenetic (family) tree? a) 4 b) 2 c) 9 d) 10 2) Which species is the least related to all the others? a) Chatham Island red-crowned kakariki b) Orange-fronted kakariki c) Forbes' kakariki d) New Caledonian red-crowned kakariki 3) When did the Norfolk Island kakariki diverge? a) 190,000 years ago b) 19,000 year ago c) 1.9 million years ago d) 0 years ago 4) Which species are the most closely related? a) Chatham Island red-crowned kakariki and Red-crowned kakariki b) Reischek's kakariki and Orange-fronted kakariki c) Chatham Island red-crowned kakariki and the New Caledonian red-crowned kakariki d) New Caledonian red-crowned kakariki and the Forbes' kakariki 5) What is a niche? a) The habitat of a living thing. b) The adaptations an organism has to survive. c) The interactions a living thing has with other living things. d) A, B and C. 6) What catastrophic event took place 65 million years ago? a) Ice age b) Global warming c) Extinction of the dinosaurs d) Huge volcanic eruptions 7) Adaptive radiation is... a) rapid speciation due to the opening of niches. b) another name for divergent evolution. c) very slow creation of new species. d) A type of speciation due to many similar niches. 8) Darwin's Finches evolved due to there being... a) no other birds on the Galapagos Islands. b) different food sources on the different Galapagos Islands. c) the same selection pressures on each of the Galapagos Islands. d) lots of mutations in the finches common ancestor. 9) Gause's Principle of Competitive Exclusions states: a) Nature won't allow two animals eating the same food. b) Nature won't allow two living things to have the same niche. c) Nature won't allow two living things to have the same adaptations. d) Nature won't allow two different species to live in the same habitat.

Adaptive Radiation

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