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History of the Development of Evolutionary Theory

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 54mins

Name

Class

Date

Who was Charles Darwin?

A man who liked birds.

The man who studied natural selection and became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies.

A doctor.

A lawyer.

What is natural selection?

Animals that have acquired traits to survive and reproduce.

Animals who pick who they want to mate with.

People pick the mates for the animals.

People change the DNA of animals to make them have desired traits.

What is variation?

Things that vary.

Different in traits.

Animals that are the same.

Species that change.

Charles Darwin was the first to discover evolution.

True

False

Charles Darwin made his first observation in the Galapagos Island.

True

False

What ship did Charles Darwin travel on?

The Mayflower

The USS Arizona

The HMS Beagle

The USS Maine

What are the Five Principles of Natural Selection?

Overproduction, Variation, Competition, Adaption, Extinction

Overproduction, Competition, Extinction, Evolution, Adaption,

Overproduction, Variation, Competition, Adaption, Evolution

Lamarck’s ideas about evolution include the concept that differences among the traits of organisms arise as a result of

continual increases in population size.

the actions of organisms as they use or fail to use body structures.

an unchanging local environment.

the natural variations already present within the population of organisms.

The economist Thomas Malthus suggested that

in the human population, people die faster than babies are born.

without certain checks on population size, there would soon be insufficient food for the growing human population.

in the 1700s, England needed more housing.

the majority of a species’ offspring die.

10.

Darwin realized that the economist Malthus’s theory of population control

applied only to humans.

could be generalized to any population of organisms.

could be generalized only when populations lived in crowded conditions.

explained why the number of deaths exceeded that of births.

11.

Each of the following is a condition necessary for natural selection to occur EXCEPT

more offspring are born than can survive.

population size is very large.

fitness varies among individuals.

there is heritable variation among members of the population.

12.

Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:
use or disuse

Darwin

Lamarck

13.

Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:
variations within populations

Darwin

Lamarck

14.

Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:
acquired characteristics are inherited

Darwin

Lamarck

15.

Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:
organisms overproduce

Darwin

Lamarck

16.

What do we call differences among heritable traits?

Variation

Adaptation

Evolution

Speciation

17.

What do we call change over time?

Evolution

Natural Selection

Natural Variation

Speciation

18.

This salamander did not use its eyes so it lost its vision, Who said if you don't use it you lose it?

Darwin

Lamarck

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History of the Development of Evolutionary Theory

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 54mins

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