Evolutionary History End of Unit Assessment

Which descendant species is most likely to have body structures that are the most different from Descendant Species B?

• Descendant Species 1

• Descendant Species C

• Descendant Species A

• Missing information

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What should be displayed on the branches of an evolutionary tree?

• ancestors

• descendants

• common ancestor populations

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A population of trout was stable for a long time. Then, their body structures changed to make them smaller. Why did this happen?

• Trout were meant to become smaller over evolutionary time.

• It is impossible to say without more information.

• Their environment must have changed.

• The crickets wanted to be louder.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which best describes the division of one species into two:

• stability

• evolutionary time

• speciation

• evolution

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

What is the separation that causes an ancestor population to evolve into descendant species?

• evolution

• a barrier

• speciation

• stability

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

When the height of the thornpalms changed in the SIM, what was the biggest change within the Ostrilope population over time?

• neck length increased

• neck length decreased

• jaw strength increased

• jaw strength decreased

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Evolution is:

• the process of turning into a human

• a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group

• the process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time

• the process by which one population evolves into two or more different species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A species is:

• the process of turning into a human

• a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group

• the process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time

• the process by which one population evolves into two or more different species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A fossil turtle and a living hawk both have a structure in their neck called the atlas bone. What best explains why both species have an atlas bone?

• They inherited this structure from separate ancestor populations.

• It is impossible to say.

• They inherited this structure from a common ancestor population.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An older population from which two or more species descended is a...

• descendant species

• organism

• common ancestor population

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2