Evolution Review

If scientists were to compare the fossil of a fern that lived millions of years ago with present-day ferns, what would they most likely find?

• That plants had bones millions of years ago

• That they have changed over time

• That ferns stopped evolving 25 million years ago

• That only animals evolve

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Preserved remains of an organism that lived in the past…..

• fossil
• picture
• dinosaur
• animal

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The man who proposed the Theory of Natural Selection was-

• Thomas Moore

• Gregor Mendel

• Neil Degrasse Tyson

• Charles Darwin

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The theory that organisms best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce is-

• Natural selection

• Adaptation

• Extinction

• Fossil

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What is the BEST definition for Evolution?

• Change
• Adaptation
• Nature's power
• Change over time

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What causes evolution?

• Natural selection
• wind
• water
• Charles Darwin

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Which of the following is NOT a type of fossil?

• Frozen

• Cast

• Mutation

• Mineralized

• Imprint

What was the name of Darwin's boat?

• Indefatiguable

• Bugle

• Sloop John B

• HMS Beagle

What type of evidence for evolution is represented in the picture above:

• Fossils

• Vestigial Structures

• DNA

• Homologous Structures

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________ is the blueprint for the development of humans and all organisms and is a type of evidence for evolution.

• Fossils

• Vestigial structures

• Homologous Structures

• DNA

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