Evolution Quizizz

The process of organisms with the best adaptations surviving and reproducing is called---

• Survival of the fittest

• Natural selection

• Adaptive behaviors

• Being smart

Why does natural selection happen?

• Organisms have to fight to survive.

• Predators have to eat.

• Resources are limited.

• Everything has a common ancestor.

The struggle between organisms for food, space, water and mates

• competition

• adaptation

• natural selection

• gene flow

Similar structures in different organisms which may or may not have a similar function.

• adaptation

• natural selection

• homology (homologous structures)

• competition

A structure in a species which used to function but does not function anymore

• homology (homologous structures)

• vestigial structures

• competition

• adaptation

What is the basic idea of evolution?

• Organisms struggle to survive.

• Those organisms that don't adapt, go extinct.

• Everything on earth is related through common ancestors.

• Resources are limited.

Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?

• Albert Einstein
• Charles Darwin
• Charles Barkley
• Isaac Newton

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution
• Nucleotide 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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When a species completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption

• Extinction

• Fossilization

• Mutation

Remains of ancient organisms are called

• Extinctions

• Fossils

• Mutations

• Variations