WorksheetsSB5 Evolution Quiz
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is a term for a group of similar organisms that can reproduce fertile offspring?
a)
individual
b)
population
c)
species
d)
fossil
2.
Genetic variation can arise from a random change in the DNA of a gene. The change is called a(n)
a)
mutation
b)
gene flow
c)
gene pool
d)
allele
3.
protein sequences in one organism that resemble those of another suggest a
a)
coincidence
b)
lack of evolutionary relationship
c)
great number of mutations
d)
common ancestor
4.
Two organisms that are closely related would have
a)
very similar DNA sequence
b)
exactly the same DNA sequences
c)
no proteins in common
d)
completely different DNA sequence
5.
Favors the middle of the population.
a)
Disruptive selection
b)
Stabilizing selection
c)
Directional selection
6.
Middle is wiped out, extremes survive.
Red is previous, blue represents the change.
Red is previous, blue represents the change.
a)
Stabilizing selection
b)
Disruptive selection
c)
Directional selection
7.
The entire curve moves in one direction or the other. Red is previous, blue represents the change.
a)
Stabilizing selection
b)
Disruptive selection
c)
Directional selection
8.
How would you describe this relationship? (wings of butterfly and wings of a bat)
a)
Homologous structure
b)
Analogous structure
c)
Structural adaption
d)
Functional adaption
9.
Which of the following ideas proposed by Lamarck was later found to be incorrect?
a)
Acquired characteristics can be inherited
b)
All species are descended from other species
c)
Living things change over time
d)
There is a relationship between an organism and its environment
10.
Which of the following explains how natural selection causes a trait to become predominant in a population?
a)
Individuals with traits that are favorable to the environment reproduce more.
b)
Traits of an individual change in order to adapt to changes in enviornment.
c)
organisms select which traits they wish to inherit
d)
all of these answers
11.
Why would a population with a large amount of genetic variation be more likely to survive a severe climate change in its environment?
a)
Individuals will only create offspring well-suited to the climate change
b)
The individuals would produce more offspring
c)
Individuals better suited to the new climate will help less-suited individuals survive
d)
Some individuals will posses traits better suited to the new climate and be more likely to pass them on
12.
Physical separation of a population, leading to speciation.
a)
reproductive isolation
b)
geographic isolation
c)
speciation
d)
gene pool
13.
Structures that have different mature forms but develop from the same embryonic tissue are called
a)
analagous
b)
adaptations
c)
homologous
d)
fossils
14.
Whales are aquatic mammals that contain a pelvis bone. Even though it does not aid in its movement, the function must have been used by a common ancestor of the whale. Thus, the pelvis is referred to as a(n)
a)
vestigial structure
b)
analogous structure
c)
homologous structure
15.
If coat color in a rabbit population is a polygenic trait, which process might have produced the graph below?
a)
disruptive selection
b)
stabilizing selection
c)
directional selection
d)
genetic equilibrium
16.
The type of selection in which individuals of average size have greater fitness than small or large individuals have is called
a)
disruptive selection
b)
stabilizing selection
c)
directional selection
d)
neutral selection
17.
Temporal isolation occurs when two different populations
a)
develop different mating behaviors
b)
become geographically separated
c)
reproduce at different times
d)
interbreed
18.
Study of embryos of various organisms
a)
natural selection
b)
embryology
c)
speciation
d)
evolution
19.
Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry
a)
vestigial structures
b)
homologous structures
c)
adaptive radiation
d)
fossil
20.
The geographic isolation of two populations of a species tends to increase differences between their gene pools because it
a)
prevents interbreeding between the populations
b)
causes the formation of hybrids
c)
causes tmeporal isolation of the two populations
d)
increases differences in courtship behavior
21.
Which best describes fossils?
a)
They are the preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things
b)
They are the preserved remains or evidence of ancient living and nonliving things
c)
They are the preserved bones of ancient animals
d)
They are impressions of plant leaves in ancient rocks
22.
The Table below shows the # of differences in amino acids in a protein called “Cytochrome C” when comparing humans to other organisms. The protein is used by many plants and animals to convert energy in cells.
List the 4 closest human relatives based on this biochemical comparison.
List the 4 closest human relatives based on this biochemical comparison.
a)
chimpanzee, horse, rattlesnake, snapping turtle
b)
chimpanzee, gorilla, rhesus monkey, horse
c)
fruit fly, bread mold, tuna fish, snapping turtle
d)
gorilla, rhesus monkey, rattlesnake, gorilla
23.
two species are in different environments and look very similar. However, that are not closely related (analogous). Their resemblance is most likely an example of.
a)
sexual selection
b)
temporal isolation
c)
convergent evolution
d)
divergent evolution
24.
What kind of isolation occurs when two populations of birds have different courtship (mating) dances?
a)
geographic
b)
sexual
c)
temporal
d)
behavioral
25.
An earthquake causes an ocean channel top open and separate an island into two. the species on each section are now in
a)
geographic isoliation
b)
behavioral isolation
c)
disruptive selection
d)
temporal isolation
26.
What is speciation?
a)
combining of tow species to form one with different traits
b)
isolation that affects mating behaviors
c)
timing of mating that prevents normal sexual selection
d)
divergence of two or more species from an existing one
27.
An inherited characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its specific environment is called (n)
a)
vestigial structure
b)
adaptation
c)
speciation
d)
analagous structure
28.
How well an organism survives and reproduces in its environment can be described as its
a)
fitness
b)
homologies
c)
common descent
d)
analogies
29.
Other insects can not, but, a bumble bee has just enough weight to open up the snapdragon flower and pollinate. This adaption is ....
a)
convergent evolution
b)
co-evolution
c)
divergent evolution
d)
speciation
30.
Scientists studied a population of tree ants in a forest. The forest is near a large factory. At first there were many more brown ants than gray ants. The factory was slowly polluting the water, and the tree bark in the forest changed from brown to grey. At the end of the study, there were more gray ants than brown ants. What might explain this?
a)
a. The gray ants killed the brown ants
b)
b. The brown ants were killed by pollution
c)
c. The gray ants were better adapted to the polluted tree bark
d)
d. The scientists did not count the number of gray ants correctly
31.
How do adaptations help animals?
a)
To hide from predators
b)
to hunt for food
c)
to survive in their habitats
d)
All of these are correct
32.
Which of these would be considered an adaptation of an animal that lives in the snowy tundra?
a)
Large webbed feet
b)
A thick coat of fur and blubber
c)
Green scales
d)
A diet that consists of pineapples and coconuts
33.
Individuals with favorable traits survive, reproduce, and pass their traits onto their offspring. This is called
a)
Mutation
b)
Adaptation
c)
Evolution
d)
Natural Selection
34.
According to the law of superposition, which layer of this fossil record is the youngest?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
35.
"Survival of the Fittest" describes which theory
a)
a) natural selection
b)
b) gravity
c)
c) heredity
d)
d) string theory
36.
Small differences within a species are called
a)
a) variations
b)
b) adaptations
c)
c) characteristics
d)
d) mutations
37.
If you do need to take antibiotics, you should stop taking them when you feel better, even if you haven't finished the whole prescription.
a)
TRUE
b)
FALSE
c)
Doesn't Matter
d)
Depends on how good you feel
38.
A person with a bacterial infection is given medicine to be taken for 8 days. After 5 days, he stops taking the pills and the symptoms return. Which of the following best explains why this occurred?
a)
Pesticide Resistance
b)
Antibiotic Resistance
c)
Disruptive Selection
d)
Stabilizing Selection
39.
What does the following image imply
a)
The pesticide
continues to be equally useful overtime.
b)
Some new insects
are migrating from other plantations and that’s why populations remain the
same.
c)
The pesticide is
favoring those insects that have a mutation to resist it and over time there
will be more of them.
d)
The pesticide has
never been effective and the person is just wasting her money.
40.
Charles Darwin discovered several species of giant tortoises among the Galapagos islands. He proposed that the tortoises all had one common ancestor that rapidly evolved into the other species. This happened when tortoises arrived at the new islands formed from volcanoes, and encountered new environmental conditions. What type of evolutionary event was responsible for the formation of the tortoise species?
a)
Adaptive Radiation
b)
Directional Selection
c)
Punctuated Equilibrium
d)
Stabilizing Selection
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