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Origin of Life

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This theory of the origin of life states that living things come from nonliving matter.

a)

spontaneous generation

b)

bubble hypothesis

c)

Primordial Soup theory

d)

Meteorite theory

2.

Louis Pasteur used a goose-neck flask and demonstrated what?

a)

life spontaneously appears

b)

life begins from other organisms

c)

DNA is the building block

d)

Amino acids can be created artificially

3.

Fossil evidence suggests life on Earth arrived

a)

1.5 bya

b)

4.6 bya

c)

3.8-3.5 bya

d)

4-5 bya

4.

Earth's early atmosphere had no

a)

gasses

b)

volcanoes

c)

water vapor

d)

free oxygen

5.

lightening and solar radiation provided enough energy to transform atmospheric chemicals into biomolecules, which then accumulated in the massive ocean covering the earth’s surface.

a)

primordial soup theory

b)

meteorite theory

c)

bubble theory

d)

spontaneous generation

6.

Bacteria and amino acids were brought to earh

a)

Primordial soup theory

b)

mass extinction

c)

meteorite hypothesis

d)

alien theory

7.

These scientists proved that organic molecules formed from inorganic molecules present in the Earth’s early atmosphere when given energy from lightening.

a)

lennon and mccartney

b)

watson and crick

c)

einstein and newton

d)

Miller and Urey

8.

The Earth was ‘seeded’ with life by other sources in the universe

a)

universal truth theory

b)

panspermia

c)

alien seeding theory

d)

meteor shower hypothesis

9.

A repeating cycle whereby organic molecules could have been brought together by energy from underwater volcanic gas bubbles and released into the atmosphere where UV rays changed them further

a)

evolution syntheis

b)

primordial soup theory

c)

creation theory

d)

Bubble hypothesis

10.

The first prokaryotes did not require oxygen and were

a)

anaerobicc

b)

aerobic

c)

both aerobic an anaerobic

11.

This bacteria formed 3.5 bya and was photosynthetic and release oxygen into the atmosphere.

a)

cyanobacteria

b)

E. coli

c)

archae bacteria

d)

mitochondria

12.

The release of oxygen into the atmosphere was so massive that this happened to the anaerobic bacteria

a)

mass extinction

b)

massive growth

c)

evolution into eubacteria

d)

they grew larger

13.

This theory describes how archaebacteria and eubacteria joined forces to create this larger cell

a)

chloroplast

b)

red blood cells

c)

streptococcus

d)

eukaryotes

14.

Mitochondria and chloroplasts are thought to be ________________________ cells engulfed by a larger one.

a)

plants

b)

prokaryotic

c)

eikaryotic

d)

viruses