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Two animals that are closely related would demonstrate which of the following?

• low amounts of their DNA sequence in common

• high amounts of their DNA sequence in common

• similar methods of flying

• the same type of habitat

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Cows and horses both have hooves on their feet. Which of the following conclusions could be made?

• cows descended from a fish

• cows and horses can reproduce with each other successfully

• cows and horses are in the same species

• cows and horses share a common ancestor

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is an adaptation?

• a trait that you can acquire in your lifetime to help you survive

• an inherited trait that helps you survive and reproduce

• a trait that disappears when you are 15 years old

• When an animal changes and tries to adapt

Which of the following best describes evolution?

• spermocytes disfigure and destroy their spermotaphores

• individual animals change over time

• individual animals try really hard to grow wings and adapt

• populations change over time, not individuals

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which of the following will happen to the giraffe population in a few years?

• the genes for long necks will increase in frequency

• the genes for short necks will increase in frequency

• the short neck giraffes will start trying to grow longer necks

• the long neck genes will disappear from the population

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

This is an example of which of the following?

• active transport

• natural seleciton

• homologous structures

• common ancestry

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What does fitness mean in biology?

• the ability to starve successfully and die

• the ability to reproduce asexually

• the ability to get killed

• the ability to survive and reproduce

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which group of animals has claws or nails?

• hagfish, chimpanzee, pigeon

• hagfish, salamander

• lizard, pigeon, mouse, chimpanzee

• salamander, human, mouse

Which of the following levels would indicate the closest relationship? (similar DNA)

• kingdom

• order

• genus

• phylum

Rift valleys can from when fractures in Earth's crust widen. The valley walls slowly move at a rate of only a few millimeters a year. Which of these best describes the type of tectonic activity that forms rift valleys?

• Rift valleys from where a continental plate moves under an oceanic plate

• Rift valleys form where a plate slides horizontally past another plate

• Rift valleys from where two plates move away from each other.

• Rift valleys form where an oceanic plate moves under another oceanic plate.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2