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Origins and Classification

Total questions: 56

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the process in which humans breed organisms for certain traits?
a)
natural selection
b)
inheritance
c)
artificial selection
d)
descent withOUT modification
2.
Who said that geological forces acting today are the same ones that have been acting in the past?
a)
Lamarck
b)
Darwin
c)
Hutton
d)
Lyell 
3.
Natural selection is when ____________ decides who survives and who doesn't
a)
nature
b)
humans
c)
animals
d)
years
4.
This scientist came up with the idea of natural selection.
a)
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
b)
Gregor Mendel
c)
Charles Darwin
d)
Thomas Malthus
5.

An evolutionist's worldview is based on which idea?

a)

An all-powerful being is capable of creating the complex organisms we find today

b)

Fossils are evidence for changes in living things

c)

God created all living things in 6 days

d)

Living things are the result of entirely natural and random processes

6.

What is the name of the idea that species do not change over time?

a)

Fixity of species

b)

Modern synthesis

c)

Theory of natural selection

d)

Uniformitarianism

7.

At one time, scientists thought that the human pituitary gland no longer had a function and considered it a...

a)

Common Ancestor

b)

Similar Structure

c)

Transitional Form

d)

Vestigial Structure

8.

According to modern evolution, new traits are produced by...

a)

Reproduction

b)

Environment

c)

DNA Mutations

d)

Accident

9.

Evolutionists believe that similar organisms evolved from a(n)...

a)

Vestigal Organism

b)

Common Ancestor

c)

Common Denominator

d)

Vestigial Organ

10.

The foreleg bones of frogs and foxes are similar. What would evolutionists call this an example of?

a)

Mutation

b)

Common Ancestor

c)

Vestigial Organ

d)

Homologous Structure

11.

Earth's features are accounted over a large period of time

a)

catastrophism

b)

uniformitarianism

12.

What is the idea that life can arise form nonliving material?

a)

biogenesis

b)

evolution

c)

spontaneous combustion

d)

spontaneous generation

13.

This faked image was used as evidence of what theory?

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Survival of the Fittest

c)

Recapitulation

d)

Creation

14.

This belief says that God created the universe and earth, but used biological evolution to let life come into being.

a)

Analogical Day View

b)

Framework View

c)

Progressive Creationism

d)

Theistic Evolution

15.

This view says the 6 days of creation are "God-days" and not 24 hours. That Genesis is not literal, but meant to show us about work and rest.

a)

Analogical Day View

b)

Framework View

c)

Progressive Creationism

d)

Theistic Evolution

16.

This belief says that God created kingdoms for living things to fill and rule over. Animals are kings of the spaces God put them in.

a)

Analogical Day View

b)

Framework View

c)

Progressive Creationism

d)

Theistic Evolution

17.

This belief says that God used cosmological evolution to make the material of the Universe and then created creatures over long periods of time, interspersed by some evolution (with limits).

a)

Analogical Day View

b)

Framework View

c)

Progressive Creationism

d)

Theistic Evolution

18.

None of the 4 compromising views of Evolution-Christianity work because...

a)

they all say there was death before sin.

b)

they all agree with Genesis.

c)

they are all based in clear, observable science

d)

science and the Bible are incompatible.

19.
Baraminology comes from the Hebrew words meaning “
a)
animal relationship
b)
common ancestor
c)
created kind
d)
distinct species
20.

All the genes in any population

a)

DNA

b)

gene pool

c)

chromosome

21.

body parts that have different origins and structures, but perform the same function

a)

analogous structures

b)

homologous structures

c)

vestigial structures

d)

anatomical structures

22.

a diagram that shows how all living things are related to each other and the 1 common ancestor

a)

phylogenetic tree

b)

family tree

c)

comparative peripatric

d)

clade

23.

Seed cracker birds have either large beaks or small beaks. They do not have medium sized beaks because medium sized beaks do not allow for adequate cracking of seeds.

a)

Stabilizing

b)

Directional

c)

Disruptive

24.

A population of Madagascar hissing cockroaches lives in a woodpile. The cockroaches are eaten by lizards. Because the lizards have small heads, the lizards are unable to eat the very largest adult cockroaches, and instead prey upon small and medium sized adults. Over time, only the large cockroaches survive to reproduce.

a)

Stabilizing

b)

Directional

c)

Disruptive

25.

Black rabbits (BB) and white rabbits (bb) are both able to survive because they can camouflage into the white and black rocks in their environment. However, the intermediate gray rabbits (Bb) do not survive. This results in only white and black rabbits.

a)

Stabilizing

b)

Directional

c)

Disruptive

26.

Which DOMAIN includes all animals and plants?

a)

Archaea

b)

Eukarya

c)

Bacteria

27.
According to this cladogram, sharks are MOST closely related to which organism? 
a)
Amphibians
b)
Ray finned fish
c)
Crocodiles
d)
Birds
28.

This kingdom contains organisms that are unicellular, eukaryotic, and often live in aquatic environments (water). Amoeba, euglena, and paramecium are a part of this kingdom.

a)

Animalia

b)

Eubacteria

c)

Fungi

d)

Protista

29.

What is the only kingdom that consists of only autotropic organisms?

a)

Animalia

b)

Fungi

c)

Protista

d)

Plantae

30.

Black rabbits (BB) and white rabbits (bb) are both able to survive because they can camouflage into the white and black rocks in their environment. However, the intermediate gray rabbits (Bb) do not survive. This results in only white and black rabbits.

a)

Stabilizing

b)

Directional

c)

Disruptive

31.

Which DOMAIN includes all animals and plants?

a)

Archaea

b)

Eukarya

c)

Bacteria

32.
According to this cladogram, sharks are MOST closely related to which organism? 
a)
Amphibians
b)
Ray finned fish
c)
Crocodiles
d)
Birds
33.

This kingdom contains organisms that are unicellular, eukaryotic, and often live in aquatic environments (water). Amoeba, euglena, and paramecium are a part of this kingdom.

a)

Animalia

b)

Eubacteria

c)

Fungi

d)

Protista

34.

What is the only kingdom that consists of only autotropic organisms?

a)

Animalia

b)

Fungi

c)

Protista

d)

Plantae

35.

This Greek scientist claimed plants gave life to all animals on Earth.

a)

Lucretius

b)

Jean Baptist de Lamarck

c)

Empedocles

d)

Darwin

36.

This is the idea that offspring bud off of their parents bodies and might be a totally different kind of creature.

a)

spontaneous generation

b)

DNA mutation

c)

pangenesis

d)

natural selection

37.

Modern evolution does not believe...

a)

common descent

b)

pangenesis

c)

natural selection

d)

DNA mutations generate new traits

38.

The phylogenetic tree is also known as....

a)

The tree of life

b)

The orchard of life

c)

The circle of life

d)

a clade

39.

T/F. Evolution says that our actions and habits are "learned" based on what makes us more fit to survive.

a)

true

b)

false

40.

Which of these was a true example of an intermediate fossil?

a)

Lucy

b)

Neanderthals

c)

cave men

d)

none of these

41.

Who faked the drawings of the different embryos to claim it proved evolution?

a)

Darwin

b)

Jean Baptist de Lamarck

c)

Ernest Haeckel

d)

Linnaeus

42.

How long did it take to go from nothing but God existing, to all of the universe, Earth, humans, and kinds of living creature existing?

a)

6 days

b)

7 days

c)

thousands of years

d)

billions of years

43.

A single-celled organism swims freely through the water as it eats various bacteria.

Which kingdom does it belong in?

a)

Plant

b)

Animal

c)

Protist

d)

Fungi

44.

Death came upon all living things as a result of...

a)

natural selection

b)

evolution

c)

Adam's sin

45.

T/F. A species that we have named today is always the same thing as the kind referenced in the Bible.

a)

true

b)

false

46.

A multi-cellular organism swims freely through the water as it eats various fish, squid, and jellyfish.

Which kingdom does it belong in?

a)

Plant

b)

Animal

c)

Protist

d)

Fungi

47.

T/F. There are different species and races of people.

a)

true

b)

false

48.

Speciation happens because...

a)

DNA mutations give new body parts or traits to animals/plants

b)

a family of that kind of creature got separated from the others, and is now so inbred that it is "purebred"

c)

people built zoos

d)

whole created kinds have gone extinct

49.

Kingdom, Phylum, Class...

Which comes next?

a)

species

b)

genus

c)

order

d)

family

50.

A multicellular organism cannot move, photosynthesizes, and has a nucleus in its cells.

Which kingdom does it belong in?

a)

Plant

b)

Animal

c)

Protist

d)

Fungi

51.

A multi-cellular organism reproduces through spores and is classified as a saprotroph.

Which kingdom does it belong in?

a)

Plant

b)

Animal

c)

Protist

d)

Fungi

52.

Which of these is a species name?

a)

Vulpes

b)

chama

c)

Canis

d)

Great Dane

53.

This visual aid is used to help you identify a particular species or breed of creature that you are looking at.

a)

clade

b)

Phylogenetic Tree

c)

Dichotomous Key

54.

When two related populations appear more and more different than each other over a period of generations.

a)

convergence

b)

evolution

c)

divergence

d)

natural selection

55.

Divergence can happen...

a)

to produce new kinds of creatures from different kinds

b)

as biological evolution says

c)

only within a created kind

d)

only if millions of years of time pass by

56.

Convergence (same structure in different kinds) is evidence of...

a)

biological evolution

b)

common descent

c)

God's good design