Amplify Evolutionary History Unit

Which best describes the division of one species into two:

• stability

• evolutionary time

• speciation

• evolution

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What is the separation that causes an ancestor population to evolve into descendant species?

• evolution

• a barrier

• speciation

• stability

When the height of the thornpalms changed in the SIM, what was the biggest change within the Ostrilope population over time?

• neck length increased

• neck length decreased

• jaw strength increased

• jaw strength decreased

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Evolution is:

• the process of turning into a human

• a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group

• the process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time

• the process by which one population evolves into two or more different species

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A species is:

• the process of turning into a human

• a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group

• the process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time

• the process by which one population evolves into two or more different species

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An older population from which two or more species descended is a...

• descendant species

• organism

• common ancestor population

A paleontologist is:

• a scientist who studies weather

• a scientist who studies archaeology

• a geologist

• a scientist who studies fossils in order to understand the ancient history of life on Earth.

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A descendant species is:

• a older population from which two or more newer species descended.

• a related organism from a previous generation

• everything that surrounds an organism

• a more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population.

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An adaptive trait is:

• a trait that is a harmful mutation

• a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• a trait that always shows up randomly and makes an organism stronger

• an adoption

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A fossil is:

• living things, such as plants, animals and bacteria

• evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

• an organism's arm, leg or wing

• everything that surrounds an organism

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