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AP - Unit 7: Natural Selection

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

True or False: Theories can change.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

True or False: Evolution explains how life originated.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

A scientific description of WHAT occurs in nature.

a)
Fact
b)
Theory
c)
Law
d)
Conclusion
4.
True or False: Theories become laws with more evidence. 
a)
True
b)
False
5.

A collection of beliefs portrayed as being scientific, such as astrology, is known as...

a)
Pseudoscience 
b)
Fact
c)
Theory
d)
Law
6.
What is an objective and verifiable observation?
a)
Fact
b)
Theory
c)
Law
d)
Idea
7.

What is a well tested explanation of HOW natural events happen by gathering evidence, making observations, and testing ideas?

a)
Theory
b)
Law
c)
Hypothesis
d)
Fact
8.

Who is the father of evolution?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Jean- Baptiste

c)

Charles Lyell

d)

Louis Pasteur

9.

Which scientist had a correct understanding of genetics and how genes were passed down from parent to offspring?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Lamarck

c)

None of the above

d)

Alfred Russel Wallace

e)

Erasmus Darwin

10.

True or False: Darwin was the first scientist who tried to explain evolution.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Which of the following describes the evidence scientists have collected about the age of the Earth?

a)

Thousands of years old

b)

Hundreds Thousands of years old

c)

Millions of years old

d)

Billions of years old

12.

This scientist believed that if an organism used a body part or organ enough it would become stronger

a)

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Thomas Malthus

d)

Alfred Wallace

13.
Which of the following ideas proposed by Lamarck was later found to be incorrect?
a)
Acquired characteristics can be inherited
b)
All species are descended from other species
c)
Living things change over time
d)
There is a relationship between an organism and its environment
14.
Who had a theory similar to Darwin (struggle for existence)?
a)
Wallace
b)
Lamarck
c)
Lyell
d)
Malthus
15.
________ is when the best-adapted organisms survive and reproduce while those with the worse traits do not.
a)
Natural Selection
b)
Artificial Selection
c)
Adaptation
d)
Mutation
16.

Which of the following is a true statement about natural selection?

a)

natural selection is goal directed

b)

individuals evolve

c)

variation exists in a population

d)

acquired characteristics are passed on

17.
What is the name of the book Darwin published about his findings?
a)
Modes of Natural Selection 
b)
The Origins of the Earth
c)
Speciation 
d)
On the Origin of Species
18.
What was the prevailing belief prior to the time of Lyell and Darwin?
a)
Earth is millions of years old, and populations are unchanging.
b)
Earth is millions of years old, and populations rapidly change.
c)
Earth is millions of years old, and populations gradually change.
d)
Earth is a few thousand years old, and populations are unchanging.
19.

What location was the most important to the discovery of evolution by natural selection for Darwin?

a)

Australia

b)

Barbados

c)

Galapagos

d)

Trinidad

20.

Why is Darwin known as the father of evolution instead of other scientists who were working on the theory at the time?

a)

Darwin published his work first

b)

Darwin was the first the figure out that species changed

c)

Darwin was the first to figure out the method of evolution and support it with evidence.

d)

Darwin took the information he learned from Wallace and published it in a journal before Wallace could publish it himself.

e)

Darwin has the best definition of evolution.

21.

Which one of the following is a belief?

a)

Aliens exist.

b)

The Earth is round.

c)

Species evolve.

d)

Living things are made of cells.

22.

The selection of certain organisms to create beneficial traits for humans is called...

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

c)

Bottleneck Effect

d)

Mutations

e)

Darwinism

23.

Fitness is described as...

a)

the ability to live and reproduce.

b)

any physical feature that increases the chances of surviving in a population.

c)

a drastic decrease in the size of the population that decreases the biodiversity.

d)

how athletic an organism is.

24.
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
25.
How would you describe this evolution?
a)
Homologous structure
b)
Analogous structure
c)
Structural adaption
d)
Functional adaption
26.
Structures that have different mature forms but develop from the same embryonic tissue are called 
a)
analagous
b)
adaptations
c)
homologous
d)
fossils
27.
Whales are aquatic mammals that contain a pelvis bone.  Even though it does not aid in its movement, the function must have been used by a common ancestor of the whale.  Thus, the pelvis is referred to as a(n)
a)
vestigial structure
b)
analogous structure
c)
homologous structure
28.
Study of embryos of various organisms
a)
natural selection
b)
embryology
c)
speciation
d)
evolution
29.

What are the two means of variation within a population?

a)

Mutations and meiosis

b)

Mutations and mitosis

c)

Meiosis and mitosis

d)

Meiosis and natural selection

e)

Natural selection and Artificial selection

30.
What would happen if the Giraffes never evolve?
a)

They would survive

b)

They would thrive

c)

They would become extinct

d)

They will find another source of food

31.

What statement is true about fossils?

a)

All living organisms leave behind fossils.

b)

Fossils show that species never change.

c)

Fossilization requires specific environmental factors which leads to less than 1% of a species becoming fossils.

d)

Plants don't leave behind fossils.

32.

The hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago.

a)

fossil

b)

extinct

c)

endangered

d)

minerals

33.

What concepts explains the age of the layers of Earth?

a)

Law of Superposition

b)

Law of Evolution

c)

Theory of Evolution

d)

Theory of Superposition

34.

Match the following pictures with the words they represent

a)

1.

Analogous Structure

b)

2.

Homologous Structure

c)
3.

Artificial selection

d)
4.

Natural selection

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