
Natural Selection and Evolution Quiz
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9th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What environmental change during the Industrial Revolution affected the peppered moth population?
Decrease in food supply
Soot covering trees
Rise in temperature
Increase in rainfall
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What percentage of peppered moths were dark-colored by 1895?
95%
50%
2%
75%
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is credited with the theory of natural selection?
Charles Darwin
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Gregor Mendel
Alfred Wallace
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the main cause of evolutionary change according to Darwin?
Genetic drift
Mutation
Migration
Natural selection
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Darwin observe about the finches in the Galapagos Islands?
They had different beak shapes adapted to their food sources
They had the same beak shapes
They migrated frequently
They were all the same species
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which principle of natural selection involves the struggle for existence due to limited resources?
Heritability
Differential survival and reproduction
Variation
Overproduction
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the term for the physical characteristics of an organism?
Gene
Allele
Phenotype
Genotype
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