Fossils

This is an example of _______

• Homologous structures

• Evolution

• Fossils

• Cladograms

An ancestor that two or more species share is known as ______

• Parents

• Great Grandpa

• Common ancestor

• Prokaryote

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What answer is best supported by the structures in the humerus bones of the different primates?

• The primates lived in similar environments

• The primates share a common ancestor

• The primates ate similar foods throughout their life

• The primates are the same species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

When all members of a species have died off this is an example of ____

• Gradualism

• Stasis

• Extinction

• Punctuated Equilibrium

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

This is an example of evolution.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Even though the opossum and kangaroo are not found in the same area, they both have pouches that they use to incubate their young. This is evidence that they...

• Are descended from a common ancestor

• Belong to the same species

• Have the same skeletal structure

• Have the same diet

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The process in which a species slowly changes/evolves over a long period of time to a new species is known as ____

• a Common ancestor

• Natural selection

• Stasis

• Gradualism

The triangles in this image is an example of which of the following? (Pick 2)

• Extinction

• Gradualism

• Living fossil

• Stasis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is the best/most accurate evidence of evolution?

• DNA Sequences

• Fossils

• Cladograms

• Living organsims

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

_____ was used in this image to determine that the cat and the horse evolved from a common ancestor

• DNA

• Homologous structures

• Footprints

• Living organisms

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2