Evidence of Evolution Quiz

What is natural selection?

• the process by which individuals who are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive

• the process by which humans pick which organisms survive

• when species are randomly voted upon and one gets eliminated

• when DNA is shuffled together and forms a new species

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Who was Charles Darwin?

• a scientist who is known for the Theory of Evolution

• a scientist who is known as "The Father of Genetics"

• a scientist who discovered cells

• a scientist who developed the first microscope

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What book did Charles Darwin write?

• Survival of the Fittest

• The Origin of Life

• The Origin of Species

• Natural Selection at its Finest

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Where did Darwin go to study different species?

• New York

• India

• Galapagos Islands

• Cuba

What species is Darwin known for studying?

• dogs

• cats

• lizards

• finches

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Most members of a species show difference, or variations.

• True

• False

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What are the different bird beaks an example of?

• Randomization

• Variation

• Selective Randomization

• Natural Selection/ Adaption

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Variations are a difference in a trait from one organism in a species to another in the same species.

• True

• False

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What are fossils?

• watches

• an ancient ancestor of the kangaroo

• the preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms

• an tool used to measure the length of a birds beak

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A fossil that used to be part of an animal, primarily a bone, is called a

• cast

• body fossil

• preserved remains

• trace fossil