Evolution Basics

How old is the earth estimated to be?

• 6000 years

• 4.6 billion years

• 4.6 thousand years

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Plants and animals are going extinct every day due to loss of habitat, deforestation, climate change and pollution, etc.

• True

• False

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When an entire species no longer exists.

• extinction

• evolution

• fossils

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The preserved remains of an organism that lived in the past.

• rocks

• dinosaurs

• fossils

• finches

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Chain of islands near South America where Darwin studied all kinds of organisms (finches, tortoises, beetles, etc.)

• Puerto Rico

• Dominican Republic

• Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket

• Galapagos

The gradual change in a species over time.

• Evolution

• Artificial Selection

• Adaptation

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A random error in DNA

• transcription

• translation

• mutation

• replication

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Birds collected and studied by Darwin. He was interested in them because they were very similar but had different beaks.

• tortoises

• chickens

• finches

• gulls

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A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.

• family

• kingdom

• order

• species

The evolution of organisms BEST ADAPTED/Fittest for their environment.

• Artificial Selection

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Variation

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