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Evolution, Natural Selection, Adaption

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is variation?

a)

A difference between individuals

b)

A similarity between individuals

c)

A similarity between groups

d)

A difference between groups

2.

A genetically determined characteristic is what?

a)

An adaption

b)

A trait

c)

Evolution

d)

Extinction

3.

A species that has completely died out:

a)

Endangered

b)

Evolution

c)

Mutations

d)

Extinct

4.

What is an inheritance?

a)

Changed to DNA.

b)

Passing features on from parents to their offspring's.

c)

Similar groups.

d)

Getting something after a family member has died.

5.

What is a thing that is accepted as true or certain to happen, without proof?

a)

Species

b)

Mutation

c)

Assumption

d)

Common Ancestors

6.

Existence is the state of being alive.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

What is a fossil?

a)

Remains of parts of animals, plants and other organisms found in rocks.

b)

Any living thing.

c)

Any dead thing.

d)

Hair preserved from dead organisms.

8.

What is an organism?

a)

A group of people

b)

An individual animal or plant

9.

What is a repeated design or regular form?

a)

An organism.

b)

A pattern.

c)

Scientific law.

d)

A variety.

10.

What is an embryo?

a)

An unborn offspring

b)

An egg

11.

Which of these is an acquired trait?

a)

Hair color

b)

Eye color

c)

Height

d)

Agility

12.

An inherited trait is something you are not born with.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

What is a scientist that studies fossils to learn about life in the past?

a)

Paleontologist

b)

Assumption

c)

Charles Darwin

14.

Who was Charles Darwin?

a)

A person who studied meteors

b)

A person who studied the Theory of Evolution

15.

What is an assumption?

a)

A proven fact

b)

An educated guess based off of with no proof

16.

What is a life form?

a)

Any living thing

b)

Any thing that lived 50 million years ago

c)

Any living thing that does not need oxygen to breath

d)

A non-living thing

17.

What is a statement based on repeated experimental observations that describes some aspect of the universe?

a)

Scientific law

b)

Natural law

c)

The law of nature

18.

Selective breeding is not when humans breed plants or animals with desired traits.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

What is a rock layer?

a)

Usually oldest rocks at the bottom and youngest at the top.

b)

Usually youngest rocks at the bottom and oldest rocks at the top.

20.

What is a paleontologist?

a)

Scientists who studies fossils to learn about life in the past.

b)

Scientists who studies new rock to learn about their future.