Evolution Quiz

How living things developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

• Osmosis

• The inheritance of acquired characteristics.

• Stratification

• Evolution

______ Selection - Changing a species through human intervention and selective breeding.

• Natural

• Artificial

• Hereditary

• Human

______ selection - The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

• Natural

• Artificial

• Divergent

• Species

What is it called when we use radioactive properties to determine how old something is?

• Relative dating.

• Layer based dating.

• Radiometric dating.

• Oxygenated dating.

This means a species of a particular living thing no longer exist.

• Endangered.

• Extinct.

• Threatened.

• Rare.

All life on Earth began as __________ organisms.

• single-celled

• multi-celled

• land-based

• social

Our fish-like ancestors started living in shallow water and developed ______ to breathe air. They came on land and grew thick skin and claws.

• fins

• lungs

• gills

• eyes

We became primates when ______ evolved and we moved to the trees to eat it.

• the leaf

• acorns

• fruit

• bark

Apes like our early ancestors start ______ when trees grow scarce and they have to travel between them.

• crawling

• jumping

• rolling

• walking

Our ape-like ancestors started making __________. Our hands changed shape and our brains got bigger.

• fire

• tools

• lightning

• microwaves