Evolution Vocabulary Quiz

Scientists estimate the ________________ of at least 99.9 percent of all species of plants and animals that ever lived.

• Extinction

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Adaptation:

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Charles Darwin used comparative anatomy to explain the structural differences between species as arising out of their evolutionary descent by ___________________from a common ancestor.

• mutation

• artificial selection

• natural selection

• adaptation

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The super continent Pangaea was created from ______________________ , which is the movement of Earth's continents relative to each other.

• law of superposition

• fault

• continental drift

• unconformity

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A living organism has around a one in a million chance of becoming a ___________________ if conditions are right.

• trilobite

• species

• mutation

• fossil

Scientist use radioactive dating to

• determine the absolute ages of rocks.

• discover the source of index fossils.

• determine the relative ages of extrusions.

• find trace fossils in igneous rock.

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Fossils are almost always found in _____ rock.

• sedimentary

• intrusion

• extrusion

• metamorphic

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Which statement best describes the Law of Superposition?

• Each sedimentary layer of rock represents 1,000 years of Earth’s age, much like the rings of a tree.

• In undisturbed layers of sedimentary rock, the upper rock layers are older than the lower rock layers.

• In undisturbed layers of sedimentary rock, the lowest layers contain the older rocks.

• Rocks that form near volcanoes are older than surrounding rock.

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Which best describes how ice cores are important to the study of geologic history?

• They show unconformities, which signal changes in deposition.

• They hold index fossils, which are used to date the different ice cores.

• They follow the Law of Superposition, which gives reasons for extinctions of species.

• They contain evidence showing changes in the atmospheric composition over time.

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During which era did the first prokaryotes appear?

• Precambrian

• Paleozoic

• Mesozoic

• Cenozoic

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Which of the following is the BEST example of an index fossil?

• an animals's paw print

• a dinosaur bone

• a fern print on a rock

• a trilobite fossil

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