Evolution and Adaptation

Fossils provide evidence of organisms that lived in the past.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Fossils commonly form when a dead organism is covered by a layer or metamorphic rocks.

• True

• False

What evidence of evolution does the picture tells you?

• similar bone structure

• developmental similarities

• similar DNA

• common ancestor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

A mass extinction occurs when a large number of species go extinct during relatively short amount of time.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The largest division of the geologic timescale is the era.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

We currently live in the Cenozoic era.

• True

• False

Fossils show that the first living things were very tiny.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Cyanobacteria is an example of

• prokaryote

• eukaryote

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Ozone is found in the atmosphere.

• True

• False

Plants, fungi, and air-breathing animals appeared in which era?

• Precambrian

• Paleozoic

• Mesozoic

• Cenozoic