Macro and Micro Evolution

Macro and Micro Evolution

9th - 10th Grade

12 Qs

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Macro and Micro Evolution

Macro and Micro Evolution

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Other Sciences

9th - 10th Grade

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Charles Martinez

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12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the main problem with Lamarck's evolutionary theory?

Individuals acquired traits from the evolutionary process, which in turn, was passed on to offspring.

Populations that failed to adapt to new environments still evolved.

Some groups within a species never passed their traits on to the next generation.

Individual species adapted to their environment, they then passed those adaptations to offspring.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The generation to generation change in a gene pool is referred to as...

Linear evolution

Macro-evolution

Micro-evolution

Branching evolution

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

The main difference between Micro-evolution and Macro-evolution is...

Micro-evolution is directly observed and Macro-evolution is not.

Macro-evolution creates new species, Micro-evolution does not (directly).

Both of these statements are correct

Both of these statements are incorrect

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The end result of macro-evolution is believed to be...

extinction

speciation

adaptation

nothing - no change.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Media Image

_________ is the process of change by which species of organism change over time.

Nucleotides

Evolution

Mutation

Carbon

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Media Image

If scientists find fossils of a type of mosquito on the bottom layer and find fossils of beetles towards the top layer, what can scientists infer?

Mosquitos ate the beetles

Mosquitos are older fossils than beetles

Beetles are older fossils than mosquitos

Both mosquitos and Beetles must have lived at the same time.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a 
group
population
variation
fossil

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