According to which of the following concept, each species was
created individually by God and never changed thereafter?
a) creationism
b) catastrophism
c) natural selection
d) endosymbiosis
Explanation: this theory reigned unchallenged for near 2000 years
The European naturalists explored the newly discovered lands of……….
a) Asia
b) Africa
c) America
d) all of these
Explanation: Naturalists are people who define natural history as the observation of organisms and processes.
Who proposed the theory of ‘Catastrophism’?
a) Charles Darwin
b) George Cuvier
c) Carlos Linnaeus
d) Louis Agassiz
Explanation: natural history has been punctuated by catastrophic events that altered that way life developed and rocks were deposited.
Who proposed that there was a new creation after each catastrophe and that modern species result from the most recent creation?
a) James Hutton
b) George Cuvier
c) Carlos Linnaeus
d) Louis Agassiz
Who contemplated the forces of wind, water, earthquake and volcanism as agents for creating layered pattern?
a) Charles Lyell
b) George Cuvier
c) James Hutton
d) both a and c
Explanation: both of them were geologists
The layers of rocks are evidence of ordinary natural processes,
occurring repeatedly over a long period of time; this concept is called……
a) creationism
b) catastrophism
c) natural selection
d) uniformitarianism
Explanation: this theory was put forward by Charles Lyell and James Hutton
