Evolution and Adaptation Quiz

Which graph shows directional selection?

• Graph A

• Graph B

• Graph C

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Which graph is used to explain what happened to the peppered moth during the industrial revolution?

• Graph A

• Graph B

• Graph C

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Which graph is used to explain why human birth weight is best when born around 7 pounds?

• Graph A

• Graph B

• Graph C

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Adaptation in which a species evolves to resemble another species for protection

• Camouflage

• Mimicry

• Niche

• Natural Selection

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Trait that shows both extremes are better suited in an environment ex: bird beaks

• Stabilizing Selection

• Disruptive Selection

• Natural Selection

• Directional Selection

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Trilobite fossils and dinosaur bone fossils are created when the remains of the organism filled with minerals from the sediment. What kind of fossil is this called?

• Mold

• Cast

• Preserved

• Trace

Which organism has the traits: Hair, Carnivorous and retractable claws only.

• Cat

• Horse

• Wolf

• Leopard

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Which organism has hair, but is not carnivorous?

• Cat

• Horse

• Wolf

• Leopard

Grouping all the organisms together that have the same trait is called a?

• Phylogenetic Tree

• Cladogram

• Clade

• Category

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Scientists

• Charles Darwin

• Developed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics.

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Proposed the theory of changes in the Earth

• Thomas Malthus

• Proposed the theory of natural selection.

• Hutton and Lyell

• Proposed the theory of populations outgrowing their environment.

• Stephen Jay Gould

• Proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolution.

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