Evolution Quiz

Change over time is

• evolution
• generation
• growth
• biogenesis

This makes an organism more suited to its environment

• species
• lifespan
• adaptation
• mutation

Charles Darwin came up with this theory 

• Natural Selection
• Mutation

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

A remnant or trace of an organism from the past is called a _______.

• Ancestor
• Skeleton
• Fossil
• Imprints

Why don't all living things become fossils?

• because some living things are too big
• because some are subject to catastrophism and others are not
• because environmental conditions have to be just right (for formation & to prevent decay)

The diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?

• Fossil A and C are the same age
  
• Fossil B is older than fossil C
• Fossils A is older than fossil B
• Fossil D is older than fossil C

Which layer is oldest?

• A
• W
• G
• Z

According to this cladogram, sharks are MOST closely related to which organism? 

• Amphibians
• Ray finned fish
• Crocodiles
• Birds