Evolution and Classification

Evolution and Classification

9th Grade

10 Qs

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Biology

9th Grade

Medium

NGSS
MS-LS4-4, MS-LS4-2, HS-LS3-1

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of these is an example of natural selection?

The largest animal in a population will have more opportunities for reproduction.
Several species of organisms work together so that they all succeed.
One species takes all the resources in an environment leaving none for others.
Organism that are best suited to an environment tend to survive and reproduce more often.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Evolution works by 

individuals changing to suit their environment
Individuals learned new traits and pass them on
sudden change in the environment cause a species change 
small changes pass down through many generations

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Define homologous structures.

Structures that appear the same, but have different ancestral origins.
Structures that appear the different, but have the same ancestral origins.
Any two body parts from the same organism
Parts that no longer appear to have a function

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Two organisms that are closely related would have

very similar DNA sequence
exactly the same DNA sequences
no proteins in common
completely different DNA sequence

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:

the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease

both populations should stay the same

both populations will increase

the green population to decrease and the yellow to increaseThis is a wrong answer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

natural selection

mutation

camouflage

adaptation

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What kingdom is eukaryotic, multi-celled, and photosynthetic?

animal

plant

protist

fungi

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