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WorksheetsUnit 3: Evolution
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The process by which all the different kinds of living things have changed over time.
a)
extinct
b)
evolution
c)
carbon film
d)
atom
2.
Describes a type of organism that no longer exists anywhere on Earth.
a)
era
b)
extinct
c)
extrusion
d)
equator
3.
The preserved remains or traces of living things.
a)
ice age
b)
glacier
c)
fossil
d)
gully
4.
A record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history.
a)
hemisphere
b)
geologic time scale
c)
landform
d)
intrusion
5.
Fossils of widely distributed organisms that lived during only one short period.
a)
index fossil
b)
longitude
c)
groundwater
d)
flood plain
6.
A warm-blooded vertebrate that feeds its young milk.
a)
mold
b)
runoff
c)
mammal
d)
meander
7.
An animal without a backbone.
a)
invertebrate
b)
exvertebrate
c)
mammal
d)
mold
8.
When many types of living things become extinct at the same time.
a)
extinct
b)
mass extinction
c)
sand dune
d)
runoff
9.
A scientist who studies fossils to learn about organisms that lived long ago.
a)
geologist
b)
biologist
c)
psychologist
d)
paleontologist
10.
One of the units of geologic time into which geologists divide eras.
a)
period
b)
runoff
c)
prime meridian
d)
fossil
11.
One of the three long units of geologic time between the Precambrian and the present.
a)
erosion
b)
era
c)
mass
d)
age
12.
A fossil in which minerals replace all or part of an organism.
a)
petrified fossil
b)
mold
c)
rock
d)
mineral
13.
A vertebrate with scaly skin that lays eggs with tough, leathery shells.
a)
reptile
b)
mammal
c)
dog
d)
horse
14.
A type of fossil that provides evidence of the activities of ancient organisms.
a)
topsoil
b)
tributary
c)
trace fossil
d)
weathering
15.
The geologic principal that the same geologic processes that operate today operated in the past to change Earth's surface.
a)
uniformitarianism
b)
soil
c)
subsoil
d)
sod
16.
An animal with a backbone.
a)
vertebrate
b)
invertebrate
c)
valley
d)
glacier
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