Evolution Final Review

If scientists find fossils of a type of mosquito on the bottom layer and find fossils of beetles towards the top layer, what can scientists infer?

• Mosquitos ate the beetles

• Mosquitos are older fossils than beetles

• Beetles are older fossils than mosquitos

• Both mosquitos and Beetles must have lived at the same time.

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When scientists compare fossils to see about old they are in a certian environment, this is called ____________

• Comparing

• Absolute Dating

• Relative Dating

• Comparative Dating

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Which group of animals on this tree are most closely related to birds?

• Saurischian dinosaurs

• Ornithischian dinosaurs

• Crocodiles

• None of these are related to birds

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What number is the common ancestor of C and D

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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What is the common ancestor of Letters A, B, C, D, E?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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Who is the closest relative to the brown bear?

• Giant panda

• Dog

• Lesser panda

• Sun bear

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Which trait (adaptation) was developed most recently?

• tetrapod limbs

• feathers

• amnion

• They developed at the same time

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Which group on the cladogram arose FIRST?

• Theropods

• Allosaurus

• Robin

• Velociraptor

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Do theropods have light bones?

• yes

• no

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Does Allosaurus have light bones?

• yes

• no

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