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Evidences of evolution review

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the father of evolution?

a)

Jean Baptiste Lammarck

b)

Carolous Linnaeus

c)

Watson and Crick

d)

Charles Darwin

2.

What process allowed for earth's atmosphere to become high in Oxygen?

a)

photosynthesis

b)

chemosynthesis

c)

respiration

d)

radiation

3.

The older layers/fossils are found deeper in the ground - the newer layers are towards the top

a)

Law of positioning

b)

law of relative and absolute age

c)

law of fossil age

d)

law of superposition

4.

biological change in living things (species) over time and generations

a)

adaptation

b)

variation

c)

evolution

d)

heritability

5.

a group of organisms that can reproduce and produce fertile offspring

a)

fitness

b)

coevolution

c)

population

d)

species

6.

Mechanism/process by which the environment causes certain variations/traits in a species to be more advantageous - this allows the organisms that display those traits to survive longer and reproduce more

a)

natural selection

b)

divergent evolution

c)

artificial selection

d)

convergent evolution

7.

The mechanism/process by which humans select specific traits in other organisms and then breed for those traits/variations

a)

natural selection

b)

adaptation

c)

artificial selection

d)

evolution

8.

Evolution scientist who developed a classification system to group organisms based on their similarities

a)

charles darwin

b)

carolus linnaeus

c)

jean baptiste lammarck

d)

watson and crick

9.

inherited traits that are selected for over time because they allow the organisms to best survive in their environment

a)

fitness

b)

variations

c)

adaptations

d)

sexual selection

10.

2 species, without a recent common ancestor, that are becoming more alike based on evolving and adapting to similar environments (dolphins and sharks)

a)

convergent evolution

b)

divergent evolution

c)

coevolution

d)

evolution

11.

2 species, with a recent common ancestor, becoming less alike over generations resulting from adapting to different environmental conditions

a)

convergent evolution

b)

divergent evolution

c)

coevolution

d)

evolution

12.

process by which 2 species that evolve together

a)

convergent evolution

b)

divergent evolution

c)

coevolution

d)

evolution

13.

What are the 5 evidences of evolution

a)

fossils

b)

biochemistry

c)

biogeography

d)

embryonic development

e)

anatomy

14.

similar structures that have different functions describes what type of structures

a)

analogous structures

b)

evolved stuctures

c)

homologous structures

d)

anatomical structures

15.

different structures that have similar functions describes what type of structure

a)

analogous structure

b)

evolved structure

c)

homologous structure

d)

anatomical structure

16.

a structure with no known function, buy may have had a function at one time

a)

analogous structure

b)

vestigial structure

c)

homologous structure

d)

anatomical structure