Evolution and the Tree of Life

Evolution and the Tree of Life

9th - 10th Grade

24 Qs

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Evolution and the Tree of Life

Evolution and the Tree of Life

Assessment

Quiz

Biology

9th - 10th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

NGSS
HS-LS4-1, HS-LS4-2, MS-LS4-2

+5

Standards-aligned

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24 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does it mean to be the "fittest" in an evolutionary sense?

the best able to avoid being eaten

the longest lived

the strongest

the most reproductively successful

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Evolution is 

completely random
fixed in one direction
neither entirely fixed nor entirely random

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the goal of the tree of life:

to explain how all species are related to each other
to be a library of all life that has ever lived
to summarize the fossil record
to describe how natural selection works

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Which way does time run on a phylogenic tree?

From root to branch tip
Across branch tips from left to right

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

A  mushroom is more like 

A palm tree than a gecko because they are heterotrophs.
A palm tree than a gecko because they are both photosynthetic autotrophs 
A gecko than a palm tree because they are both photosynthetic autotrophs
A gecko than a palm tree because they are both heterotrophs.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An amniote is an animal that

lays eggs
developes embryos inside a membrane
gives live birth
has eggs with hard shells

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Under a microscope, if an organism's cells have visible nuclei, it is considered...

prokaryotic

heterotrophic

eukaryotic

autotrophic

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