8.L.4 Quiz: Evolution and Genetics

What evidence supports the theory that continents were once a large landmass?

• The continents share a similar climate.
• Similar fossils have been found on different continents.
• Minerals like gold and copper are found worldwide.
• Coconut trees are found on coastlines.

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Trilobite fossils from different time periods show small changes in appearance. What might account for the changes?

• catastrophic geologic events
• weathering and erosion
• increase in greenhouse gases
• response to environmental changes

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Which term best describes a specially developed characteristic that enables an organism to live in a specific environment?

• adaptations
• natural selection
• survival of the fittest
• variations

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Which of these is least likely to show common ancestry?

• homologous structures
• vestigial structures
  
• DNA
  
• analogous structures
  

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What process is most responsible for the extinction of most  species of plants and animals that have lived on Earth?

• gene mutation
  
• selective breeding
• environmental changes
• decrease in reproduction

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An organism is_________________________

• a dead creature.

• a living creature dependent on things in the environment.

• something you play that looks like a piano.

• a way we are like our parents.

Features that describe a person, place, or thing can be called...

• characteristics

• problems

• solutions

• nouns

If you resemble your parents, it means you...

• are mad at your parents

• don't look anything like your parents

• look like or act like your parents

• look like your mom, but not your dad

Something that is similar to something else, but different in some way has a ....

• variation

• problem

• flaw

• glitch

To be unique is to be____________________

• exactly like everyone or everything in every way

• damaged

• awkward

• unlike anything or anyone else