AP - Unit 7: Natural Selection

True or False: Theories can change.

• True

• False

True or False: Evolution explains how life originated.

• True

• False

A scientific description of WHAT occurs in nature.

• Fact
• Theory
• Law
• Conclusion

True or False: Theories become laws with more evidence. 

• True
• False

A collection of beliefs portrayed as being scientific, such as astrology, is known as...

• Pseudoscience 
• Fact
• Theory
• Law

What is an objective and verifiable observation?

• Fact
• Theory
• Law
• Idea

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NGSS.HS-PS2-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

What is a well tested explanation of HOW natural events happen by gathering evidence, making observations, and testing ideas?

• Theory
• Law
• Hypothesis
• Fact

Who is the father of evolution?

• Charles Darwin

• Jean- Baptiste

• Charles Lyell

• Louis Pasteur

Which scientist had a correct understanding of genetics and how genes were passed down from parent to offspring?

• Charles Darwin

• Lamarck

• None of the above

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Erasmus Darwin

True or False: Darwin was the first scientist who tried to explain evolution.

• True

• False