Evolution Quiz

"Paleo" means

• Modern Life

• Middle Life

• Ancient Life

• End Life

When a horse is bred for a specific outcome (look) it's called

• ancestry

• artificial selection

• natural selection

The evolution of one or more species from a single species is called

• speciation

• variation

• adaptation

• traits

Animals that walk on two legs are called

• Quadrapeds

• Bipeds

• Fish

• Reptiles

A different trait inside the same population is called a

• competition

• speciation

• variation

• organism

The name of the book Charles Darwin wrote about evolution was called

• The Voyage of the Beagle

• The Selfish Gene

• Why Evolution is True

• On the Origin of Species

Mimicry is an example of a(n) ____________ that serves a functional role.

• variation

• adaptation

• organism

• trait

The study of similar and different bone structures is called

• speciation

• natural selection

• evolution

• comparative anatomy

Anatomically modern humans are called Homo __________.

• Sapiens

• Neanderthalensis

• Erectus

• Habilis

Certain fossils suggest common ____________ among animals.

• adaptations

• families

• species

• ancestry