Evolution Quiz

Why is Charles Darwin important to Science?

• He was a great basketball player

• He was responsible for coming up with the theory of gravity

• He was responsible for coming up with the theory of evolution

• he was a cool guy

Pick the one TRUE statement about Darwin's voyage on the Beagle.

• Darwin was not seasick all of the time

• Darwin ate pretty well while on the ship

• Darwin was the ships' naturalist

• Darwin was the cabin boy for the crew

Pick the one things Darwin saw that

influenced his thinking about evolution

from the choices below.

• Darwin was not seasick all of the time

• Darwin ate pretty well while on the ship

• • Darwin visited rock ledges that had clearly once been beaches that had gradually built up over time.

• Darwin was the cabin boy for the crew

Darwin's voyage on the Beagle

lasted almost __ years

• 10

• 3

• 2

• 5

Below are some examples of things that Darwin

saw that influenced his thinking about evolution.

Pick the one TRUE item from the choices provided.

• He collected rare insects

• He ate exotic foods

• • He witnessed an earthquake that moved the ocean floor 9 feet

• He rode a wild tortoise

__was an important French naturalist.

He was one of the first scientists to

propose that species change over time

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

• Thomas Malthus

__was an important English naturalist / scientist.

His book, “On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection,”

caused an uproar around the world.

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

• Thomas Malthus

__ was a well-known English geologist.

He argued that gradual geological processes

have gradually shaped Earth’s surface.

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

• Thomas Malthus

__ was an English economist.

He argued that human populations grow faster

than the resources they depend on.

When populations become too large,

famine and disease break out

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

• Thomas Malthus

How do we define evolution?

• The change in characteristics of living things over time.

• inheritance of acquired characteristics

• gradual geological processes have gradually shaped Earth’s surface

• Organisms better fitted to the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce