Evolution/Genetics Review

Alfred Wegener is known for the Continental Drift Theory, what evidence was not used to help support his theory?

• Evidence of fossils and rock layers

• Shape of continents seem to fit together

• Examination of soil

• Sea-floor spreading...rock ages (younger near rift...older further away)

• Ancient Climate

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What type of boundary is it that scrapes/slides past each other, forming earthquakes and the crust is neither created nor destroyed?

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

There are 3 main types of rocks, which type of rock do most fossils form in?

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

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Name the scientist who proposed the idea of the Continental Drift Theory.

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Bapiste Lamarck

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Which statement best explains what evolution means?

• No change overtime, organisms just appear out of nowhere.

• A belief that they existed millions of years ago made up of all current continents. All continents were stuck together

• Change overtime; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms

• A process that organisms are most suited to their environments

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Earthquakes tell scientist a lot about Earth's history, which statement explains what it tells?

• Gives a clear picture of how tectonic plates are moving and an insight to the different layers of Earth.

• Doesn't tell us much just that there are layers and possibly plates.

• Give some details but only a few and that there are plates under the Earth's surface.

• None of these statements make sense

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Mid-ocean ridges are created from this type of boundary where new crust is created.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• None of these

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There are many reason for organisms (both plant and animal) to go extinct, which factor is the most responsible?

• Gene

• Mutation

• Selective Breeding

• Environmental changes

• Decrease in reproduction

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A body part that does not seem to play a role in the body functions of an organism and the organism can survive without it. (Ex. wisdom teeth)

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Vestigial Organ

• Biodiversity

The Alps are forming as a result of the European and African plates pushing against each other. What is this an example of ?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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