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WorksheetsDarwin and Lamarck
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:
survival of the fittest
survival of the fittest
a)
Darwin
b)
Lamarck
2.
Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:
use or disuse
use or disuse
a)
Darwin
b)
Lamarck
3.
Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:
variations within populations
variations within populations
a)
Darwin
b)
Lamarck
4.
Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:
acquired characteristics are inherited
acquired characteristics are inherited
a)
Darwin
b)
Lamarck
5.
Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:
organisms overproduce
organisms overproduce
a)
Darwin
b)
Lamarck
6.
The process in which organism with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring.
a)
Natural Selection
b)
Survival of the Fittest
c)
Common Descent
d)
Phenotype
7.
What do we call differences among heritable traits?
a)
Variation
b)
Adaptation
c)
Evolution
d)
Speciation
8.
What do we call change over time?
a)
Evolution
b)
Natural Selection
c)
Natural Variation
d)
Speciation
9.
Who would have stated "acquired traits" such as a giraffe needing a long neck so they stretch it over time
a)
Darwin
b)
Lamarck
10.
What book did Darwin write?
a)
Evolution in Biology
b)
The Origin of Species
c)
The Giving Tree
d)
Discovering Argentina.
11.
Did human beings evolved from apes?
a)
Yes and we evolved through natural selection
b)
Yes and we evolved through survival of the fittest
c)
No but we share a common ancestor
d)
Yes and we evolved through adapting to the environment
12.
Charles Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment
a)
diversity.
b)
evolution
c)
adaptation.
d)
fitness.
13.
Lamarck’s ideas about evolution include the concept that differences among the traits of organisms arise as a result of
a)
continual increases in population size.
b)
the actions of organisms as they use or fail to use body structures.
c)
an unchanging local environment.
d)
the natural variations already present within the population of organisms.
14.
What is survival of the fittest?
a)
It is where the fittest die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes
b)
It is where the fittest die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
c)
It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
d)
It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes
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