Worksheets16.2 and 16.3
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
How old did many Europeans think the Earth was in the mid 1800s?
Millions
Thousands
Hundreds
Billions
Which science discipline figured out how old the world actually was?
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Physics
Which geologist noticed a connection between geological processes and geological features?
Charles Darwin
James Hutton
Gregor Mendel
Thomas Malthus
Who argued that the laws of nature are constant overtime (uniformitarianism)?
Charles Lyell
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Robert Hook
Charles Darwin
What did Darwin experience while in South America that made him consider uniformitarianism?
Earthquake
Marine fossils found in the mountains
Tornado
Tropical Storm
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?
Charles Darwin
Charles Lyell
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Thomas Malthus
Who noted that more people were being born each year than was dying?
James Hutton
Charles Lyell
Gregor Mendel
Thomas Malthus
When animal and plant farmers/breeders select the traits they want to be passed on to offspring?
Natural Selection
Artificial Selection
Genetics
Meiosis
What is how well an organism can survive in its environment?
Meiosis
Fitness
Fossils
Artificial Selection
What 2 things does survival in evolutionary terms mean?
Reproducing
Living
Passing adaptations to offspring
Dying
What is a heritable characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive?
Fitness
Adaptation
Survival
Selection
What is the process by which organisms with variations the most suited to their local environment survive and leave offspring?
Artificial Selection
Adaptations
Fitness
Natural Selection
