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Evolution CrashCourse Video Quiz

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

True or False: Evolution causes animal species to die off

a)

False

b)

True

2.

How old is the first microorganism from which all life descended? (in billions of years)

(a)  

3.

True or False: The theory of evolution is fake.

a)

False

b)

True

4.

What do fossils show us?

a)

How to create diamonds (in Minecraft)

b)

Cool rocks

c)

Organisms that lived long ago were different from those today

d)

Organisms have always been the same

5.

What did the discovery of Dorudon fossils help scientists understand?

a)

Whales descended from land mammals

b)

Whales are reptiles

c)

Whales are birds

d)

Whales have always been aquatic

6.

What do you call a structure that is similar due to shared ancestry?

(a)  

7.

What molecule do all living things on Earth use to encode information?

(a)  

8.

True or False: Chimpanzees are more than 95% similar to humans.

a)

False

b)

True

9.

What is biogeography?

a)

The study of anatomy

b)

The study of fossils

c)

The study of DNA

d)

The study of the distribution of species around the world

10.

Why are marsupials mainly found in Australia?

a)

They evolved there after continental drift

b)

They migrated there recently

c)

They were brought there by humans

d)

They evolved in North America

11.

What did Darwin observe about finches on the Galapagos islands?

a)

They did not evolve

b)

They were completely different from mainland species

c)

They were similar to each other and to a species on the mainland

d)

They were all identical

12.

What did Peter and Rosemary Grant discover about finches on Daphne Major?

a)

They did not evolve

b)

They were extinct

c)

They were identical to mainland finches

d)

They became a new species in less than 30 years

13.

What happened to mosquitoes in India after the use of DDT?

a)

They developed resistance to DDT

b)

They became larger

c)

They migrated

d)

They all died

14.

What change occurred in the Italian wall lizards transplanted to a new island?

a)

They became smaller

b)

Their digestive systems adapted to digest plants

c)

They stopped reproducing

d)

They became extinct