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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive in its environment?
a)
adaptation
b)
variation
c)
homologous structure
d)
vestigial structure
2.
Who hypothesized that human populations are kept in check by war, famine, and disease?
a)
Darwin
b)
Hutton
c)
Malthus
d)
Lamarck
3.
a)
analogous structures
b)
homologous structures
c)
vestigial structures
d)
none of the above
4.
What is the process of which humans breed organisms for certain traits?
a)
artificial selection
b)
descent without modification
c)
inheritance of acquired characteristics
d)
natural selection
5.
Vertebrate embryos pass through similar stages of development is evidence for
a)
use and disuse
b)
homologous structures
c)
common ancestry
d)
acquired characteristics
6.
Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce
a)
better traits
b)
stronger genes
c)
more offspring
d)
fewer mutations
7.
All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a
a)
group
b)
population
c)
variation
d)
fossil
8.
The remnant of an organ that had a function in an early ancestor is known as a(n)
a)
vestigial structure
b)
analogous structure
c)
homologous structure
d)
fossil structure
9.
Who said that geological forces acting today are the same ones that have been acting in the past?
a)
Lamarck
b)
Darwin
c)
Hutton
d)
Lyell
10.
What is the study of the distribution of organisms around the world?
a)
geology
b)
biogeography
c)
paleontology
d)
geography
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