BCPS MS Life CFA Evolution

Traits that allow a plant, animal, or other organism to survive and reproduce in its environment are called _____________.

• evolutions

• advantages

• adaptations

• selections

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

In the 19th century, an English natural scientist named ____________ was fascinated by the diversity of life on Earth

• Charles Darwin

• HMS Beagle

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

____ is when members of a species that are best suited for their environment survive and reproduce at a higher rate than other members of the species

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• speciation

• adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which of the following means "change over time"

• natural selection

• speciation

• evolution

• isolation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  

• become extinct
  

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

You look at two species and see very similar DNA. What does this likely tell you?

• These are the same animal.

• These animals have a common ancestor.

• These animals are not likely related.

• These animals are likely becoming one species.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

In stage one (top row) of these embryos, most of the embryos________

• look very similar.

• have very different features.

• show different stages of development.

• have only a tail if they are non-human.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

The diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?

• Fossil A and C are the same age
  

• Fossil B is older than fossil C

• Fossils A is older than fossil B

• Fossil D is older than fossil C

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• theories

• variations

• adaptations

• genes

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

___ are mistakes in the DNA that cause variation within a species.

• mutations

• adaptations

• speciations

• isolations

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4