Diversity Of Life Unit 1 Test Review

Which of the following statements is supported by the phylogentic tree?

• Grasshoppers became extinct hundreds of millions of years ago.
• Mosquitoes and flies are members of the same species.
• Flies did not become a species until just a few hundred years ago.
• Beetles share a common ancestor with moths.

What is the most important question to ask when analyzing homologies to determine common ancestry?

• Do they live in similar places?
• Are the structures similar?
• Do they have a similar function?
• Do they eat the same foods?

Which two species have the most distant common ancestor?

• 1 and 4
• 1 and 2
• 1 and 3
• 2 and 3

Which rock layer most likely contains fossils of the most recently evolved organisms?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

An archaeologist made the following diagram of a dig site. What can be said about the pottery as compared to the skull found in the site?

• The rock layer with the pottery is more recent than the rock layer with the skull.
• The rock layer with the skull is more recent than the rock layer with the pottery.
• The rock layer with the skull is approximately the same age as the rock layer with the pottery.
• The rock layer with the skull has an absolute date of 17,000 years.

What is a fossil?

• A dead organism
• Sedimentary Rock
• Bone
• Preserved remains or traces of an organism 

A solid copy of the shape of an organism is a...

• Cast
• Mold
• Trace Fossil
• Carbon Film 

The process by which all different living things change over time is

• Fossil Record
• Natural Selection
• Fossilization
• Evolution 

This can show how organisms and environment have changed over time

• Fossil Record
• Carbon Film
• Replacement Fossil
• Tree Sap

Fossils can show us which of the following

• Organism Size
• Organism Speed
• Where something lived
• All answers