Quiz: Evolution Vocabulary

What is evolution?

• Evolution is the process of organisms developing and diversifying from earlier forms over time.
• Evolution is the process of organisms appearing suddenly.

• Evolution is the process of organisms staying the same over time.
• Evolution is the process gaining and using energy

What is a fossil?

• The preserved remains or traces of living things from the past.

• A type of rock found in rivers
• A modern-day animal species
• A type of cloud formation

What is natural selection?

• Where organisms better adapted to their environment survive and produce more offspring

• Where organisms change their physical appearance.

• Where organisms come from a creator.

• Where organisms go extinct.

Which of the following is an example of artificial selection?

• The development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

• The breeding of dogs to produce certain traits.

• Natural selection resulting in moth color changes.

• The formation of new species on isolated islands.

Which scientist developed the theory of evolution?

• Darwin

• Hutton & Lyell

• Wallace

• Newton

Describe how the Peppered Moth is evidence of evolution. (Use examples from assignment 2)

What was significant about the Galapagos Islands?