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Evolution and Natural Selection
Evolution and Natural Selection
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Test your knowledge of Evolution and prepare for our upcoming TEST!
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An organism that is made up of a single cell
Onicellular
Unicellular
Manycellular
Multicellular
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Charles Darwin's key principle that helpful mutations help some organisms survive
Overproduction
Adaptation
Variation
Selection
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When humans select the trait that they want in an organism and breed for it.
Natural Selection
Artificial Selection
Nutritional Selection
My way, or the highway
4
Which answer is the correct way to write human beings scientific name?
homo Sapien
Homo Sapien
homo sapien
Homo sapien
5
The image below is an example of what?
Isolation
Speciation
Vestigial Organ
Variation
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Which fossil would likely be the oldest found at a dig site?
100 ft. deep underground
50 ft. deep underground
15 ft. deep underground
5 ft. deep underground
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Which of the following is NOT one of Charles Darwin's key principles?
Selection
Overproduction
Isolation
Variation
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Which of the following about fossils is correct?
Fossils do not prove dinosaurs existed
The only way to find fish fossils is dig underwater
Fossils near the surface are very old
Full fossil skeletons are rare
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When a single species of organism evolves into two or more new species
Selection
Isolation
Variation
Speciation
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When one fossil is compared to another to determine its age.
Blind Dating
Radioactive Dating
Relative Dating
Absolute Dating
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The giant crater off the coast of Mexico that was formed when an asteroid hit the Earth.
Mexican Crater
Chill-out Crater
Chicken Crater
Chicxulub Crater
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Which theory explains why Abingdon Island tortoises have longer necks
Fossils
Ancestor
DNA
Evolution
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Any living thing that is made up of more than one cell.
Multigrain
Unicellular
Manycellular
Multicellular
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A remnant of a body part that serves no current purpose, but connects to an ancestor
Ancestry
Speciation
Arm bone
Vestigial Organ
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The theory that life changes over millions of years of time.
Growing up
Natural Selection
Evolution
Genetics
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Using similarities in living and extinct species to prove relationships and understand ancestry
Biological Evidence
Genetic Evidence
CSI Evidence
Fossil Evidence
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When huge numbers of species die, or become extinct, in a very short time.
Mass Extinction
Eradication
Extinction
Many Extinction
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When nature chooses which organisms survive based on their adaptations.
Evolution
Only the strong survive
Natural Selection
Speciation
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A statement based on observation and experimentation
Scientific Theory
Scientific Hypothesis
Scientific Observation
Scientific Law
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When minerals replace the bone of an organism to create a fossil.
Minerva Fossil
Mineral Fossil
Bone Fossil
Preserved Fossil
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Charles Darwin's key principle that the best traits will survive and be passed on to offspring
Variation
Adaptation
Selection
Overproduction
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When an ancient organism, like a woolly mammoth, is preserved in ice.
Refrigerated Fossil
Preserved Fossil
Bone Fossil
Mineral Fossil
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When life is separated, preventing them from breeding or intermingling
Speciation
Selection
Variation
Isolation
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Since all three structures are similar, but different, these organisms have a common what?
Environment
Variation
Food supply
Ancestor
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When a hard bone, tooth, or shell becomes fossilized.
Mineral fossil
Preserved fossil
Bone fossil
Fossil
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When the remains of an organism are preserved in rock.
Fossil
Sedimentary
Igneous
Metamorphic Rock
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Which scientist created the modern idea of Evolution?
Gregor Mendel
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Robert Hooke
Charles Darwin
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The extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs
Cretaceous Extinction
Permian Extinction
Jurassic Extinction
Triassic Extinction
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Charles Darwin's key principle that organisms lay thousands of eggs so that some will survive
Selection
Variation
Adaptation
Overproduction
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Charles Darwin's key principle that organisms in a group will be different genetically
Selection
Adaptation
Overproduction
Variation
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When the rock that a fossil is in experimented on to find the exact age the fossil was formed.
Relative Dating
Radioactive Dating
Absolute Dating
Double Dating
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Using similarities in DNA to understand how closely related two organisms might be
Genetic Evidence
CSI Evidence
Fossil Evidence
Biological Evidence
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An early form of an organism from which more modern species evolved from
Ancestor
Relative
Brother
Grandmother
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Using discovered fossils to assist in proving the theory of evolution
Genetic Evidence
CSI Evidence
Fossil Evidence
Biological Evidence
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Which time period of Earth did NOT have dinosaurs alive?
Triassic
Cretaceous
Permian
Jurassic
