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Mechanisms and Patterns of Evolution

Authored by Matthew Leet

Biology

9th - 12th Grade

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Mechanisms and Patterns of Evolution
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The process in which a single species or a small group of species evolves into diverse forms that live in different ways is called

coevolution

macroevolution

adaptive radiation

convergent evolution

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The process by which unrelated organisms come to resemble one another because they live in similar environments is

coevolution

macroevolution

adaptive radiation

convergent evolution

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What contributed to the adaptive radiation of mammals?

the evolution of plants

the mass extinction of most dinosaurs

coevolution with insects

continental drift

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is an example of convergent evolution?

bird’s wing and fish’s fin

human’s arm and bird’s wing

shark’s fin and dolphin’s limb

human’s leg and dolphin’s limb

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Large-scale evolutionary changes that usually take place over long periods of time are referred to as speciation

true

false, it is called macroevolution

false, it is called microevolution

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Evolution that happens between species as a response to changes in each other is called

punctuated equilibrium

adaptive radiation

coevolution

extinction

convergent evolution

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Long periods of species stability that is interrupted by periods of rapid change is what type of evolution?

adaptive radiation

punctuated equilibrium

coevolution

convergent evolution

extinction

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