Natural Selection and Adaptation

Fossil remains from a certain geologic age that are used to date rock layers are called

• resin fossils

• index fossils

• index bones

• resin bones

Older rock is located in lower layers and newer rock is located in upper layers. This is known as the

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Motion

• Law of Evolution

• Law of Layers

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The percentage of organisms that have gone extinct is believed to be

• between 1 and 30 percent

• between 40 and 60 percent

• between 50 and 80 percent

• over 90 percent

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Fossils can provide evidence of

• past lives

• past environments

• past geologic events

• all of the above

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Any preserved evidence of life from a past geologic age is called a

• reef

• fossil

• marble rock

• footprint

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Finding coral reefs in the middle of the desert provide evidence of

• a past ocean in that location

• a new type of desert reef

• a past forest in that location

• a reef that can life in two different climates

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Charles Darwin is a scientist most famous for

• the theory of evolution and revolution

• natural selection and natural food products

• the theory of evolution and natural selection

• the theory of natural selection and revolution

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The process that occurs when a population changes in response to their environment is called

• law of superposition

• natural selection

• evolution

• revolution

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An inherited trait by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment is called a(n)

• adaptation

• camouflage

• mutation

• revolution

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An organism's ability to survive and produce offspring is called

• survival of the youngest

• survival of the oldest

• survival of the cutest

• survival of the fittest

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