Science 7 Test 5

What is the belief that only the natural world exists?

• gradualism

• paganism

• materialism

• uniformitarianism

Which view of life teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species?

• orchard view

• tree view

• species view

• lawn view

What term refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him?

• worldview

• outlook

• attitude

• mindset

What term refers to an originally created type of organism?

• family

• species

• type

• kind

What are the "useless" organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development?

• rudimentary organs

• defunct organs

• pharyngeal organs

• vestigial organs

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What modern animal is Pakicetus a supposed ancestor of?

• human

• whale

• fruit fly

• horse

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the foundation of modern science?

• historic experimentation

• evolutionary philosophies

• scientific observation

• biblical principles

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NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-2

What false idea says that the present is the key to the past?

• materialism

• spontaneous generation

• uniformitarianism

• punctuated equilibrium

What English physician discovered blood circulation?

• William Harvey

• Konrad Gesner

• Georges Cuvier

• Charles Lyell

What scientific organization, founded in 1666, was supported by Huguenots and Jansenists?

• Philosophical College

• Royal Society of London

• University of Tubingen

• French Academy of Sciences