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WorksheetsEvolution
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is a fossil?
Process that drives evolution
A historic rock
Remains of a prehistoric organism
Living organism
Which of the following is true about Darwin
He travels on the HMS Beagle
All of the above
He was an English naturalist
He stops at Galapagos Islands
What does genes have to do with evolution?
It doesn't
It underlie changes from the process of evolution
It makes evolution faster
It is a pattern of evolution
What are the factors that cause organisms to evolve?
All of the above
Natural selection
Inheritance and mutation
Change in environment
What is evolution?
A population change over a 24 months
Is the slow process where a population change over time
The amount of variety and variability of life in an ecosystem
None of the above
Evolution a random process
True
False
What is mutation?
Is a permanent alteration of the DNA that is passed from parents to offsprings
More offsprings can be produce that can survived to maturity
Individuals within the population have similar traits
Individuals compete to survive
Adaptation is an inherited trait that has become common in a population because it gives the specie an advantage for survival in the environment.
true
false
What is natural selection?
Specie choose to undergo this process
organism with favorable traits survive, reproduce and pass on those traits to the next generation
First phase of mitosis
All of the above
what is homologous structure?
similar organisms have similar traits as they descended from one ancestor
useless structure in organisms
structures that decreases the specie's survival chances
different organisms have similar traits due to common ancestry for different functions
What is analogous structure?
Related organisms develop different traits in similar environment
Organisms not closely related develop similar traits due to climate change
Related organisms develop different traits for the same function
Organisms not closely related develop similar traits as they have to adapt to similar environment
Vestigial structure are inherited from ancestors that have lost much or all of their original function during the course of evolution
True
False
The_____limb contains a series of bones and 5 digits
Pentagon
Pterodactyl
Dinosaurs
Pentadactyl
DNA is a____ found in all living organisms
Biochemistry
Carbon
Biomolecule
Biodiversity
Which of the following evidence of evolution is shown here?
Fossil Record
Embryology
Molecular Similarities
Anatomy
