Evolution Quiz

The available body of fads or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

• Fossil Record

• Vestigial Structure

• Body Fossil

• Evidence

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A fossil that exhibits characteristics of both ancestral and derived forms.

• Cast Fossil

• Paleontology

• Transitional Fossil 

• Vestigial Structure

The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.

• Vestigial Structure

• Analogous Structure

• Fossils

• Body Fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

History of life as documented by fossils.

• Law of Superposition

• Fossil Record

• Transitional Fossil 

• Sedimentary

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Someone who studies fossils as a way of getting information about the history of life on earth.

• Paleontologist

• Transitional Fossil 

• Paleontology

• Fossil Record

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Fossilized imprint.

• Trace Fossil

• Cast Fossil

• Body Fossil

• Mold Fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Within the layers of sedimentary rock, the youngest layer is at the top. As you go further, each layer below is older.

• Sedimentary

• Mold Fossil

• Law of Superposition

• Cast Fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Parts of an organism's body

• Trace Fossil

• Cast Fossil

• Body Fossil

• Mold Fossil

Features from different species are similar but they change a bit depending on what environment they live in.

• Homologous

• Analogous Structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

When a fossil mold underground is filled with sediment to form a fossil in the actual shape of the animal's bones.

• Trace Fossil

• Cast Fossil

• Body Fossil

• Mold Fossil