CC Evidence of Evolution: Whale Fossils CC Cooper

CC Evidence of Evolution: Whale Fossils CC Cooper

Assessment

Interactive Video

Other

9th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

Created by

Carolyn Cooper

FREE Resource

8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The things living today can all be connected back through time to...

Common Ancestors

Organisms on Different Planets

Dinosaurs

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Whales are like us because they are...

Mammals

Fish

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What indicated that what was found was a skull from an ancestral whale?

Jaw bone

Ear bone

Brain cavity

Teeth

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Transitional features on fossils show...

The types of species the organism interacted with

What type of food the organism ate

An evolutionary transition from one way of life to another

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Whale flippers look like fins on the outside.  On the inside they look like...

The limb of a frog

The fin of a shark

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why are whale fossils being found in a place that looks like a desert?

The area used to be an sea or ocean

Whales used to live in the desert

The fossils got moved by a storm

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Scientists have concluded that an ancestor of modern day whales lived...

On land

In the sky

On a different planet

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Animals might have moved into the water looking for food, safety, and decreased competition

True

False

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