Bill Nye Evolution Video Quiz

What is the most advanced life form on Earth?

• humans

• feathers and scales are similar

• very slight changes over millions of years

• genetic messages or a blueprint of how a species is made

• different breeds of dogs or cross hybrids of plants

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What is a simple definition of evolution?

• over a billion years all living things evolved from one common ancestor

• very slight change over millions of years

• process of change over long periods of time

• natural selection is one over long periods of time through evolution and artificial selection in forced by humans

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What happens when environments change and species cannot adapt?

• Their populations increase

• The animals are not affected

• The animals cannot survive and are gone

• None of the above

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Very old bodies of water where the first life formed is known as ___________________.

• extinction

• fossils

• primordial soup

• evolution

Different breeds of dogs or cross hybrids of plants is an example of

• evolution

• natural selection

• selective breeding/artificial selection

• adaptation

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Giraffes have long necks because they stretch in order to reach their food.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Because they adapted to environmental conditions the giant ground sloth can be seen in the wild today.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Genes are made up of _____________.

• deoxyribonucleic acid

• fossils

• primordial soup

• chromosomes

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What contains genetic messages or a blueprint of how a species is made?

• Charles Darwin's theory

• DNA

• primordial soup

• artificial selection

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What are two things that show that dinosaurs and birds are similar?

• they both lay eggs

• feathers and scales are similar

• a long neck vs a short neck

• a tailbone or coccyx

• both a and b

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