Moss invades and establishes itself on bare rock, accumulating the beginnings of soil. after several years, enough soil has become established that grasses begin to grow where there was once bare rock. without the moss building up soil, the grasses would have had no chance. the establishment of the mosses on bare rock and eventual addition of grasses represents:

Ecologist have observed a sharp increase of sulfur dioxide in the air . what might be a possible consequence of excessive sulfur dioxide in the air ? a. acid rain b. ozone layer depletion c.ozone layer hole d.increase in sea levels

Cladistics is a way of classifying organisms by examining the characteristics of their ancestors and descendants and depicting the relationships in a cladogram. which of the following best describes a challenge in classifying organisms this way? a. there are millions of species on earth, and a cladogram is not a practical means for classifying all of them. b. it is impossible to tell which organisms are most closely related to each other using a cladogram. c. cladograms are detail-oriented and do not provide a useful understanding of evolutionary relationships. d. there is a limited number of ways to organize the information, so most cladograms end up looking very similar.

Which of the following statements is true about the relationship between genetic variation and natural selection? a. genetic variation must be present in a population before natural selection can act on it. b. genetic variation arises in a population as a result of natural selection. c. natural selection can act on a population whether there is genetic variation within the population or not. d. after natural selection acts on a population, the amount of genetic variation in the population always increases.