Evolution quiz

Evolution quiz

9th Grade

18 Qs

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Evolution quiz

Evolution quiz

Assessment

Quiz

Biology

9th Grade

Easy

NGSS
HS-LS4-4, HS-LS4-5, HS-LS4-3

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Standards-aligned

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18 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Happens only in small populations, and is the change in the frequency of a gene variant (allele) in a population due to random sampling of organisms.

Extinction
Genetic Drift
Bottleneck Effect
Founder Effect

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is true?

Gene pool frequencies do not change as a result of migration in or out of a population.
Gene flow occurs only as a result of isolation of a small population.
Gene flow can cause new alleles to enter a population's gene pool.
Gene flow is due the the selection of the most favorable traits.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Occurs when stable environment favours the intermediate phenotype

Directional selection

Disruptive selection

Stabilizing selection

Inbeeding

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A balanced polymorphism exist through disruptive selection in seed cracker finches from Cameroon in which small and large billed birds specialized in cracking soft and hard seeds, respectively. If long term climatic change resulted in all seeds becoming hard, what type of selection would then operate on the finch population?

Sexual selection

Stabilizing selection

Directional selection

Disruptive selection

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Occurs when environmental conditions fluctuate between two opposite extreme values.

Artificial selection

Distruptive selection

Directional selection

Stabilizing selection

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Female water frogs tend to be attracted to the males with the loudest and most distinctive mating call (an acoustical display).

directional selection

stabilizing selection

disruptive selection

artificial selection

sexual selection

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

______ _________ explains how two or more organisms could evolve similar traits even though they are not related to each other.

convergent evolution
reproductive isolation
derived characters
hybrid vigor

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

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