Evolution Unit Quiz

When organisms are better adapted to their environment they will survive and reproduce more successfully than organisms less adapted. This process is called what?

• Selective breeding

• Natural Selection

• Cloning

• Evolution of all species

Which scientist visited the Galapagos Islands and came up with the theory of natural selection?

• Theodor Schwann

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Rudolf Virchow

Gigantopithecus were very large primates that lived 500,000 years ago. Since none of these mammals are still today, they are said to be....

• Extinct

• Threatened

• Endangered

• Declining

A physical or behavioral trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment is called a what?

• An adaptation

• A response to a stimulus

• A mutation

• Evolution

What most likely caused the finches on the Galapagos Islands to have beaks that were different from the finches on the mainland?

• There were different types of predators on the island.

• There were different types of food available on the island.

• The finches had no water to drink.

• The finches on the mainland could not fly high enough.

When looking at two birds of the same species, you notice that one has darker feathers than the other one. You also notice that one has a beak that is just a little longer. These slight differences within members of the same species are called.....

• Fossils

• Extinction

• Meiosis

• Variations

What do we call a change in a species over time?

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Extinction

• Environmental influences

The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution
• Nucleotide 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption
• Extinction
• Fossilization
• Mutation