Evolution Study Guide

What is Evolution?

• Intelligence through the Ages in the Human Mind.
• A type of Organism that lives in the Ocean.
• A process by which a species changes over time.
• How many species there are in the world.

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What is an example of Variation?

• Change over time around the world.
• A large amount of people dying around the world.
• Different types of dinosaurs.
• Differences that exist natural through a population or species.

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A bird's beak changes over time to fit it's environment. What is this an example of?

• Adaptation
• Variation
• Laziness
• Disease

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Bone structure is NOT an example of adaptation.

• True
• False

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Which of these are LEAST LIKELY to show common ancestry?

• Homologous Structures
• Vestigial Structures
• DNA
• Analogous Structures

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What is Natural Selection?

• Survival of the Fittest 
• Darwinism
• Process in which the weakest are killed off.
• All of the Above.

What are Homologous Structures?

• Survival of the Fittest.
• Traits
• Ancestry
• Body parts of different organisms that have a similar structure but a different function.

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What are examples of Homologous Structures?

• Hair Comb to Scissors
• The Human Arm to Bird Wing to Whale Flipper
• Bird Wing to Butterfly Wing
• Elephant Tusk to Rhinoceros Horn

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