WorksheetsEvolution and Inheritance End of Unit Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Adaptation in relation to animals is...
How an animal adapts to survive in its environment
What an animal eats
How an animal breeds
How animals manage to eat more than one type of food
Evolution in relation to animals is...
The different things animals eat
How animals have evolved over time into different species
How to classify different animals
How animals have learnt to eat other animals
Inheritance in relation to animals is...
How animals behave in an environment.
What animals do to survive in an environment.
What animals like to eat.
Certain things that animals get from their parents.
How has a polar bear adapted to live in the Arctic? Tick one or more that you think are correct.
It has thick white fur to keep it warm.
It can swim
It is a mammal
it is warm blooded
Why is adaptation important for animals?
So they can live in a range of different habitats
So they can have more young
So they don't get scared by humans
so they can live in groups
Which famous person discovered the theory of evolution?
Carl Linnaeus
Charles Darwin
David Attenborough
Chris Packham
Evolution is linked to how new species have evolved whereas adaptation is how species adapt to live in different environments.
True
False
Which of these did you not inherit from your parents?
Hair colour
Height
Weight
Eye Colour
Can you inherit a sense of humour from your parents?
Yes
No
Which of these could a tiger cub inherit from its parents?
Where it lives when it is older.
How it hunts.
What the best food is to eat.
Colour of its fur.
What characteristic did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?
Beaks
Feathers
Colour
Body size
What are fossils?
Are the remains or evidence of once-living organisms
Is the change over time in populations of related organisms
A chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units
Occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies
How do bones become fossils?
The bones dry off
An animal eats it
The bones get buried under leaves
Bones need to be covered deep in sand/mud (100's of feet) then bone turns into stone
