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WorksheetsEvolution Vocabulary Practice
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The wings of flightless birds, like the ostrich, are an example of this
a)
Vestigial Structures
b)
Evolution
c)
Homologous structures
d)
Analogous structures
2.
Study of nucleic acids and proteins to show evolutionary relationship
a)
Evolution
b)
Biochemistry
c)
Biogeography
d)
Paleontology
3.
Migration of alleles
a)
Gene pool
b)
Speciation
c)
Genetic equilibrium
d)
Gene flow
4.
A physical trait that increases an organisms ability to survive in its enviornment.
a)
Adaptation
b)
Natural Selection
c)
Homologous structures
d)
Vestigial structures
5.
Sudden elimination of a species due to a catastrophic event
a)
Gradual Extinction
b)
Mass extinction
c)
Gradualism
d)
Punctuated equilibrium
6.
Rapid evolutionary change
a)
Mass extinction
b)
Gradualism
c)
Punctuated equilibrium
d)
Gradual Extinction
7.
Biological change over time that causes descendants to be different from their ancestors
a)
Paleontology
b)
Natural Selection
c)
Gradual Extinction
d)
Evolution
8.
Principle of natural selection that explains how benficial traits should become more common over time, causing a change in allelic frequencies
a)
Descent with modification
b)
Natural Selection
c)
Genetic equilibrium
9.
Body Structures that are similar in orientation, but completely different in function due to organisms living in different environments
a)
Homologous structures
b)
Analogous structures
c)
Vestigial structures
10.
Study of embryological development in vertebrates that has led to support the theory of common ancestry among vertebrates
a)
Evolution
b)
Embryology
c)
Paleontology
d)
Biochemistry
11.
When 2 organisms such as predator and prey, evolve in response to one another
a)
Evolution
b)
Coevolution
c)
Adaptation
d)
Symbiosis
12.
When traits that favor reproduction, even though they may decrease an organisms ability to survive, become more common over time
a)
Natural Selection
b)
Convergent evolution
c)
Sexual Selection
d)
Divergent evolution
13.
When allelic frequencies are stable and unchanging, therefore evolution is not occuring
a)
Genetic Equilibrium
b)
Punctuated equilibrium
c)
Extinction
d)
Gradualism
14.
When isolation, such as geographically, causes two populations of organisms to become so different that they can no longer reproduce with each other and create viable offspring
a)
Extinction
b)
Mass extinction
c)
Gradual Extinction
d)
Speciation
15.
The study of pre-historic life that allows scientists to make connections between current and extinct species
a)
Embryology
b)
Biochemistry
c)
Paleontology
d)
Biogeography
16.
Evolution that results in formation of homologous structures
a)
Divergent evolution
b)
Convergent evolution
c)
Coevolution
17.
Evolution that results in formation of analogous structures
a)
Divergent evolution
b)
Convergent evolution
c)
Coevolution
18.
All the genes available in the population
a)
Gene flow
b)
Total genome
c)
Gene pool
d)
allele frequency
19.
Slow change in allele frequencies over long period of time
a)
Evolution
b)
Mass extinction
c)
Gradual Extinction
d)
Gradualism
20.
Organisms with traits that make them better adapted to their environment will live longer and reproduce more than organisms less adapted to the environment
a)
Paleontology
b)
Natural Selection
c)
Gradual Extinction
d)
Evolution
21.
Study of body structures to provide evidence of evolution
a)
Anatomy
b)
Embryology
c)
Biochemistry
d)
Paleontology
22.
Remnants of organisms such as imprints, bones and feces
a)
Homologous structures
b)
Vestigial structures
c)
Fossils
d)
Analogous structures
23.
Slow elimination of species caused by small environmental changes over extended period of time
a)
Extinction
b)
Mass extinction
c)
Gradual Extinction
d)
Speciation
24.
Similar body structures such as, fins, due to organisms living in the same environment, not same ancestry
a)
Homologous structures
b)
Vestigial structures
c)
Fossils
d)
Analogous structures
25.
Study of the physical distribution of plants and animals
a)
Embryology
b)
Biochemistry
c)
Paleontology
d)
Biogeography
26.
The embryos in the early stages of development of dogs, pigs, and humans resemble one another. This suggests that these animals may have –
a)
Analogous structures
b)
Common ancester
c)
Same chromosomes
d)
Adaptation
27.
The legs of crocodiles and mice have similar bone structures and develop in a similar way. What type of structures are the leg bones?
a)
Homologous structures
b)
Vestigial structures
c)
Fossils
d)
Analogous structures
28.
In which of the following does the process of natural selection produce change?
a)
Animal species only
b)
organisms that reproduce asexually only
c)
Inidividual members of species
d)
Populations of species
29.
For an adaptation to lead to evolution, it must
a)
Provide benefit to the organism
b)
Involve more than one chromosome
c)
Be able to be passed from parent to offspring
d)
Be in somatic cells of organism
30.
Which of the following provides evidence for the endosymbiotic theory?
a)
The amino acid structure of eukaryotic organelles is identical to bacteria
b)
Both mitochondria and chloroplasts contain DNA that is different from the nucleus.
c)
Both mitochondria and chloroplasts are composed of the same types of protein as aerobic bacteria.
d)
Eukaryotic cells reproduce in the same manner as aerobic prokaryotes.
31.
Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?
a)
Albert Einstein
b)
Charles Darwin
c)
Charles Barkley
d)
Isaac Newton
32.
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
33.
Over time, adaptions can lead populations to experience
a)
environmental changes
b)
genetic changes
c)
geological changes
d)
extinction
34.
In natural selection, the selective agent is the
a)
humans
b)
mutations
c)
breeders
d)
environment
35.
If an organism has a vestigial structure, that structure likely once had a function in a(n)
a)
close relative
b)
early ancestor
c)
unrelated organism
d)
embryological stage
36.
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
37.
What increases genetic variation when animals move from one population to another
a)
genetic drift
b)
sexual selection
c)
bottleneck effect
d)
gene flow
38.
The five-factors for evolution are gene flow, genetic drift, mutation, natural selection and ....
a)
non-random mating
b)
controlled mating
c)
emigration
d)
immigration
39.
What kid of isolation occurs when two populations of birds have different courtship dances?
a)
geographic
b)
sexual
c)
temporal
d)
behavioral
40.
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
41.
Other insects cannot, 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
42.
What is the process in which humans breed organisms for certain traits?
a)
natural selection
b)
inheritance
c)
artificial selection
d)
descent withOUT modification
43.
Which layer is the oldest?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
44.
The diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?
a)
Fossil A and C are the same age
b)
Fossil B is older than fossil C
c)
Fossils A is older than fossil B
d)
Fossil D is older than fossil C
45.
What is this an example of?
a)
diversity of species
b)
variation
c)
vestigial structures
d)
DNA studies
46.
Structures that have the same function but different structures are...
a)
homologous structures
b)
analogous structures
c)
vestigial structures
d)
embryology
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