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Evolution and Natural Selection

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is evolution?

a)

change over hundreds of years

b)

change over millions of years

c)

change over weeks

d)

change over a few years

2.

Different sizes, shapes and colors are usually . . .

a)

adaptations

b)

variations

c)

homologous structures

d)

vestigial structures

3.

He proposed evolution due to the environment.

a)

Carolus Linnaeus

b)

Georges Buffon

c)

Erasmus Darwin

d)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

4.

He proposed evolution by natural selection.

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Georges Buffon

c)

Erasmus Darwin

d)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

5.

Trace of an organism that existed in the past.

a)

Fingerprint

b)

Vestigial Structure

c)

Fossil

d)

DNA sequence

6.

Features allowing organisms to better survive its environment.

a)

analogous structures

b)

variations

c)

adaptations

d)

vestigial structures

7.

Selection where humans breed species based on favorable traits.

a)

Artificial

b)

Sexual

c)

Natural

8.

Selection by which the environment determines an organisms traits.

a)

Artificial

b)

Sexual

c)

Natural

9.

The ability to pass on traits from one generation to the next.

a)

Adpatability

b)

Inheritance

c)

Heritability

d)

Variability

10.

Measure of how well an organism can survive and produce offspring.

a)

Variation

b)

Adaptation

c)

Heritability

d)

Fitness

11.

Producing more offspring than will survive to increase the probability of survival.

a)

Embryology

b)

Overproduction

c)

Adaptations

d)

Variations

12.

Allows scientists' to determine age, common ancestors, location or environment.

a)

Embryology

b)

Anatomy

c)

Geography

d)

DNA sequence

13.

Natural selection results with adaptations suited for survival and reproduction is.

a)

Variation

b)

Adaptation

c)

Descent with Modification

d)

Overproduction

14.

Which description most accurately describes natural selection?

a)

reproductive success based on inherited traits

b)

inheriting learned characteristics

c)

characteristics changing in response to need

d)

constant improvement leading to perfection

15.

Which of the following represents a pair of homologous structures?

a)

body of a shark and a whale

b)

wing of a bat and arm of a human

c)

feathers of a bird and skin of a bat

d)

scales of a fish and the wing of a bird

16.

Organs that have similar functions but different structures.

a)

analogous structures

b)

homologous structures

c)

heterologous structures

d)

heterozygous structures

17.

What is an inherited trait that increases an organisms chance of surviving and reproducing?

a)

natural selection

b)

adaptation

c)

variation

d)

evolution

18.

The process of change over a period of time is called

a)

adaptation

b)

evolution

c)

natural selection

d)

selective breeding

19.

Which layer contains the YOUNGEST fossils?

a)

top layer

b)

middle layer

c)

bottom layer

d)

no one knows

20.

The process where organisms with favorable adaptations are most likely to survive is called

a)

evolution

b)

speciation

c)

change over time

d)

natural selection

21.

What did Darwin help to explain?

a)

genetics

b)

how old the Earth is

c)

how birds fly

d)

how species change over time

22.

According to Darwin, why did the Galapagos finches have different beaks?

a)

feeding habits and diet

b)

differences in defense

c)

genetic mutations

d)

difference in flight