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Evolution

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 4hrs 30mins

Name

Class

Date

Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

Fossil

Adaptation

Ancestor

Natural selection

This scientist came up with the idea of natural selection.

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

Gregor Mendel

Charles Darwin

Thomas Malthus

Survival of the fittest or when favorable adaptations reproduce faster is called what?

Evolution

Adaptation

Natural selection

Fossilization

Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

vestigial structures

homologous structures

adaptive radiation

fossil

What do we call a change in a species over time?

Adaptation

Evolution

Extinction

Environmental influences

Hibernation is an example of which type of adaptation?

Behavioral Adaptation

Physical Adaptation

Beak shape, camouflage, and webbed feet are all examples of which type of adaptation?

Behavioral Adaptation

Physical Adaptation

When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

Adaption

Extinction

Fossilization

Mutation

Mistakes or changes that occur int he DNA sequence are called....

adatations

Darwinism

mutations

natural selection

10.

The preserved remains or physical evidence of an organism that lived in the past are called...

evolutionary features

fossils

mutations

variations

11.

What is it called when an organism is best adapted to its environment, it will survive and reproduce more successfully than other organisms less adapted?

cloning

evolution of all species

natural selection

selective breeding

12.

If a new trait DOES help an organism survive, what may happen to it?

It dies and its DNA is not passed on

It survives and its DNA is passed on

It changes its traits to adapt and survive

13.

Genes that are beneficial to the species will....

evolve a new species

will not be passed down to its' offspring

become more common over time

cause the extinction of a species

14.

Occurs when two populations of organisms form a specialized relationship and thus change in response to each other

Convergent Evolution

Punctuated equilibrium

Coevolution

Speciation

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Evolution

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 4hrs 30mins

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