An underground storage container is leaking a toxic chemical. one year after the leak began, the chemical had spread 1500 meters from its source. after two years, the chemical had spread 900 meters more , and by the end of the third year, it had reached an additional 540 meters. if this pattern continues, how far will the spill have spread from its source after 10 years?

the answer is; biodiversity resulting from few ancestors

adaptive radiation occurs when a population is subjected to a large natural environment with spatial ecological variations. the parts of the population in the different ecologies begin to adapt to their local environments. due to non-random mating across the large populations, this causes the different populations from the large population to speciate within their local environments. they, therefore, diverge to different species sharing a common ancestor.