WorksheetsCh. 16.3 Darwin Presents His Case/16.4 Evidence of Evolution
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
According to Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, individuals who survive are the ones best adapted for their environment. Their survival is due to the ______?
possession of adaptations developed through use.
possession of inherited adaptations that maximize fitness.
lack of competition within the species.
choices made by plant and animal breeders.
Charles Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment
diversity.
fitness.
adaptation.
evolution.
According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, the individuals that tend to survive are those that have _____?
characteristics their parents acquired by use and disuse.
characteristics that plant and animal breeders value.
the greatest number of offspring.
variations best suited to environmental conditions.
The principle of common descent helps explain why ____?
well-adapted species have many offspring.
conditions in an organism's environment ensures the organism's survival.
birds and reptiles share a number of inherited characteristics.
tigers are so different from cheetahs.
The hypothesis that all species are descended from common ancestors was proposed by _____?
James Hutton
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Thomas Malthus
Charles Darwin
The number and location of bones of many fossil vertebrates are similar to those in living vertebrates. This is evidence in support of which of the following concepts?
Lamarck's tendency towards perfection
common descent
analogous structures
the inheritance of acquired traits.
Biogeography is the study of _____?
where species and their ancestors live.
how extinct species can be related to living species.
how different species can interbreed.
how animals that live in the same area are closely related.
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record as _____?
evidence that Earth was thousands of years old.
useful support for this theory.
interesting but unrelated to the evolution of modern species.
evidence that traits are acquired through use or disuse.
