Evolution Practice Questions

What was the name of the scientist who developed the theory of evolution?

• Lamarck
• Einstein
• Washington
• Darwin

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What are the evidences for Evolution?

• Fossil Records
• Embryology
• Similar anatomy 
• All the above

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What is something that explains why a phenomenon happens?

• Hypothesis
• Theory
• Law
• Conclusion

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Artificial selection is also known as surivial of the fittest.

• True
• False

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According to relative dating, the fossils found in the lower layer of rocks are ________ than those found at higher layer

• older
• Same age
• Younger
• tougher

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Comparing one rock to another rock to determine the age is considered to be called

• Absolute age
• Relative age
• Actual age
• Predicted age

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Selective pressures are

• adaptations
• environmental changes
• variations
• One direction

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Natural selection is when ____________ decides who survives and who doesn't

• nature
• humans
• animals
• years

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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What type of adaptation does this insect show? 

• homologous structures
• camouflage
• artificial selection
• homologous structure

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