Evolution Mid-Unit Quiz

Who was the first naturalist to study evolution?

• Charles Darwin
• Gregor Mendal
• Carolus Linneaus
• Thomas Edison

This is a process by which organisms inherited advantageous traits that tend to reproduce more successfully than the other organisms do. 

• Artificial selection
• Natural selection
• Populations
• Environment

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-6

This is a process in which organisms gradually change over time.

• Environment
• Competition
• Evolution
• Fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

These are natural differences within a species.

• Evolution
• Genetic variation
• Biological diversity
• Populations

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

This is an inherited trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

• Evolution
• Population
• Environment
• Adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

This is an ecological relationship in which two or more organisms depend on the same limited resource.

• Adaptation
• Competition
• Evolution
• Natural selection

The availability of facts indicating whether a hypothesis is valid (true).

• Fossil
• Evidence
• Extinction
• Competition

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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This is the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock.

• Competiton
• Extinction
• Evidence
• Fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the process in which populations CHANGE gradually over time?

• evolution

• species

• variation

• competition

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What do you call similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor?

• Natural Selection

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Homologous Structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2