Evolution/Genetics Review

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Alfred Wegener is known for the Continental Drift Theory, what evidence was not used to help support his theory?
Evidence of fossils and rock layers
Shape of continents seem to fit together
Examination of soil
Sea-floor spreading...rock ages (younger near rift...older further away)
Ancient Climate
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of boundary is it that scrapes/slides past each other, forming earthquakes and the crust is neither created nor destroyed?
Divergent
Transform
Convergent
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
There are 3 main types of rocks, which type of rock do most fossils form in?
Metamorphic
Igneous
Sedimentary
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Name the scientist who proposed the idea of the Continental Drift Theory.
Alfred Wegener
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Jean Bapiste Lamarck
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which statement best explains what evolution means?
No change overtime, organisms just appear out of nowhere.
A belief that they existed millions of years ago made up of all current continents. All continents were stuck together
Change overtime; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms
A process that organisms are most suited to their environments
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NGSS.MS-LS4-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-2
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Earthquakes tell scientist a lot about Earth's history, which statement explains what it tells?
Gives a clear picture of how tectonic plates are moving and an insight to the different layers of Earth.
Doesn't tell us much just that there are layers and possibly plates.
Give some details but only a few and that there are plates under the Earth's surface.
None of these statements make sense
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mid-ocean ridges are created from this type of boundary where new crust is created.
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
None of these
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
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