Evolution

The most obvious adaptation of a giraffe is what?

• Big feet to walk steadily

• They can be tamed to live in zoos.

• Long neck to reach leaves that other animals cannot.

• A long tail to flick flies away.

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Which famous person discovered the theory of evolution?

• Carl Linnaeus

• Charles Darwin

• David Attenborough

• Chris Packham

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Scientists say humans evolved from apes.

• True

• False

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How has the human skeleton evolved over millions of years? Choose two.

• We have less rib bones

• Arms and leg bones have got longer

• The type of bone has changed

• The skull has got bigger

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Which of these could a tiger cub inherit from its parents?

• Where it lives when it is older.

• How it hunts.

• What the best food is to eat.

• Colour of its fur.

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Which of these enables the calf in the picture to look different to its Mum?

• Adaptation

• Inheritance

• Evolution

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How do webbed feet help penguins survive.

• They help them swim and walk on snow.

• They help them kick they're prey.

• They help them dig holes.

• All of the above.

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Adaptations can be:

• camouflage

• ability to survive cold weather

• hunting skills

• all of the above

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When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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This is any characterisitc that makes an organism better suited to its environment.

• Evolution

• Graduation

• Species

• Adaptation

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