
Evolution Test Review (Yates)
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9th - 12th Grade
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Rukhsar Saiyed
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40 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
What is known as an inherited traits that increases your chance of survival and reproduction in a specific environment?
homologous structure
vestigial organ
adaptation
speciation
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
What causes variation in a population?
inbreeding
emigration
mutations
genetic drift
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS3-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
What is a measurement of an organism's ability to survive and reproduce?
adaptation
fitness
symbiotic relationship
ecological niche
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
A population of moths had a mix of white and black. After the Industrial Revolution, black moths became more common. How were the moths affected by natural selection?
Tree trunks turned lacks so the moths decided to change color.
The trees were originally black but turned to brown.
The moths changed color due to the acquired traits.
Some moths were black due to a mutation, and when the tree trunks turned black, most of population became mostly black.
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NGSS.MS-LS3-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
What role do mutations play in natural selection?
Provide variation and the environment selections for or against the adaptations
Mutations are always harmful
All mutations are passed on to offspring
Mutations are always fatal
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NGSS.MS-LS3-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Walking sticks can be either be striped or not striped. In one area, the dominant vegetation has needle-like leaves that resemble stripes. What will happen to the walking sticks?
Those without stripes will reproduce faster.
Those with stripes will be able to camouflage and become more common.
They will become spotted.
They will live on a rare plant species.
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NGSS.MS-LS1-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
A parasitic fly follows the sound of cricket wings. They deposit their larvae into the cricket causing them to die. A mutation in some crickets that changes their wing structure to make them silent. The crickets with the silent wings are found among crickets with normal wings. What is selecting for the silent wings?
crickets
cricket wings
parasitic fly
genetic mutation
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NGSS.MS-LS3-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
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