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16.2 and 16.3

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How old did many Europeans think the Earth was in the mid 1800s?

a)

Millions

b)

Thousands

c)

Hundreds

d)

Billions

2.

Which science discipline figured out how old the world actually was?

a)

Biology

b)

Chemistry

c)

Geology

d)

Physics

3.

Which geologist noticed a connection between geological processes and geological features?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

James Hutton

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Thomas Malthus

4.

Who argued that the laws of nature are constant overtime (uniformitarianism)?

a)

Charles Lyell

b)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

c)

Robert Hook

d)

Charles Darwin

5.

What did Darwin experience while in South America that made him consider uniformitarianism?

a)

Earthquake

b)

Marine fossils found in the mountains

c)

Tornado

d)

Tropical Storm

6.

Who suggested that if an organism stopped using a body part it would eventually become smaller and the smaller body part would be passed on to offspring?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Charles Lyell

c)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

d)

Thomas Malthus

7.

Who noted that more people were being born each year than was dying?

a)

James Hutton

b)

Charles Lyell

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Thomas Malthus

8.

When animal and plant farmers/breeders select the traits they want to be passed on to offspring?

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

c)

Genetics

d)

Meiosis

9.

What is how well an organism can survive in its environment?

a)

Meiosis

b)

Fitness

c)

Fossils

d)

Artificial Selection

10.

What 2 things does survival in evolutionary terms mean?

a)

Reproducing

b)

Living

c)

Passing adaptations to offspring

d)

Dying

11.

What is a heritable characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive?

a)

Fitness

b)

Adaptation

c)

Survival

d)

Selection

12.

What is the process by which organisms with variations the most suited to their local environment survive and leave offspring?

a)

Artificial Selection

b)

Adaptations

c)

Fitness

d)

Natural Selection