WorksheetsMacro and Micro Evolution
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 13mins
What was the main problem with Lamarck's evolutionary theory?
Individuals acquired traits from the evolutionary process, which in turn, was passed on to offspring.
Populations that failed to adapt to new environments still evolved.
Some groups within a species never passed their traits on to the next generation.
Individual species adapted to their environment, they then passed those adaptations to offspring.
The generation to generation change in a gene pool is referred to as...
Linear evolution
Macro-evolution
Micro-evolution
Branching evolution
The main difference between Micro-evolution and Macro-evolution is...
Micro-evolution is directly observed and Macro-evolution is not.
Macro-evolution creates new species, Micro-evolution does not (directly).
Both of these statements are correct
Both of these statements are incorrect
The end result of macro-evolution is believed to be...
extinction
speciation
adaptation
nothing - no change.
_________ is the process of change by which species of organism change over time.
Nucleotides
Evolution
Mutation
Carbon
If scientists find fossils of a type of mosquito on the bottom layer and find fossils of beetles towards the top layer, what can scientists infer?
Mosquitos ate the beetles
Mosquitos are older fossils than beetles
Beetles are older fossils than mosquitos
Both mosquitos and Beetles must have lived at the same time.
Whales, which live in the water, have hips. These structures are important for carrying the weight of animals that walk on land. Finding this body part in animals that don’t walk on land is best explained how?
Whales have evolved this structure because it might be useful in the future.
Whales are able to interbreed with other animals that have hips.
Whales have a diet that includes other animals that have this structure.
Whales share a common ancestor with animals that walk on land.
The table shows characteristics of the structures of several related groups of plants. All of these plant types are related in their evolutionary history to a common ancestor that had what characteristic?
A transport system made of xylem and phloem
Seeds that were covered
Leaves with branching veins
Leaves with parallel veins
Do you think the two species have a common ancestor?
NO
YES
