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A museum exhibit demonstrates how ice ages drove evolutionary changes by altering sea levels, climate patterns, and habitat distribution. What does this reveal about the relationship between geological events and biological evolution?
Question 4 options:
Biological evolution causes geological events like ice ages through organism activity
Ice ages only affected geology and had no impact on living organisms
Environmental changes created by geological processes drive evolutionary adaptation and speciation
Geological events and biological evolution are completely independent processes
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Correct answer: Environmental changes created by geological processes drive evolutionary adaptation and speciation.
Explanation: Geological events like ice ages alter climate, sea levels, and habitats, which change selective pressures and create barriers or new environments. That promotes adaptation, population divergence, and sometimes speciation (e.g., range shifts, isolated refugia, new ecological niches). The other choices are incorrect because ice ages did affect organisms, biological evolution doesn’t generally cause major geological events, and the two processes are not independent but interact.
Explanation: Geological events like ice ages alter climate, sea levels, and habitats, which change selective pressures and create barriers or new environments. That promotes adaptation, population divergence, and sometimes speciation (e.g., range shifts, isolated refugia, new ecological niches). The other choices are incorrect because ice ages did affect organisms, biological evolution doesn’t generally cause major geological events, and the two processes are not independent but interact.
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