Voyage of the Beagle Assignment (Part 1)

 

Click on this link (http://www.aboutdarwin.com/voyage/voyage01.html) and use the information found there to answer the questions below:

 

1. After the Napoleonic Wars, what did England focus on? Why?

 

2. How did England accomplish this?

 

 

3. What was the Hydrographic office? Why was it needed?

 

 

4. Who was Robert FitzRoy?

 

 

5. Why did FitzRoy want to go to South America so badly?

 

 

6. What was a “naturalist”? Why did FitzRoy want one for the second voyage of the Beagle?

 

 

7. Why did Darwin’s father object to his going on the voyage?

 

 

8. What items did Darwin bring with him on the voyage?

 

 

9. What part of the ship did Darwin live in? Describe this area.

 

 

 

10. Why couldn’t the crew of the Beagle leave the ship when they got to Tenerife island? Why was Darwin disappointed?

 

 

11. What did Darwin find at the island of Santiago?

 

12. Darwin also found a layer of shells at the island of Santiago. What kinds of questions did Darwin have about these shells?

 

13. What did Darwin and FitzRoy argue about while at Bahia, Brazil? Who was on which side?

 

14. In All Saints Bay the Beagle was doing “sounding measurements.” What are sounding measurements?

 

15. What was Darwin doing while the Beagle was making these measurements?

 

16. What did Darwin do in the area of Rio de Janeiro?

 

17. What was in Darwin’s first load of specimens?

 

18. What kinds of fossils did Darwin collect in Patagonia?

 

19. How did Darwin describe the native Fuegans he encountered at Tierra de Fuego?

 

20. What caught Darwin’s attention as he was collecting fossils at the Falkland Islands?

 

21. What specimens did Darwin collect while in the area of Maldonado?

 

22. What problem did Darwin run into due to his success at collecting specimens? What did he do about this?

 

23. What questions did Darwin have while collecting fossils along the shore of Punta Alta?