Evolution and Natural Selection Vocabulary

Evolution and Natural Selection Vocabulary

8th Grade

25 Qs

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Evolution and Natural Selection Vocabulary

Evolution and Natural Selection Vocabulary

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-LS4-4, MS-LS4-2, MS-LS3-2

+6

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the process where living things slowly change over many generations?

Natural Selection

Adaptation

Evolution

Biogeography

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which term describes a natural process where organisms with traits that help them survive and reproduce pass those traits to their offspring?

Adaptation

Natural Selection

Common Ancestry

Selective Breeding

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a change in a living thing that makes it better suited to its environment?

Variation

Evolution

Adaptation

Homologous Structures

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What do we call a group of similar living things that can mate and have offspring that can also reproduce?

Environment

Species

Organism

Genes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Darwin said that the number of offspring an organism has ___________________

stays the same

is more than can survive

is less than needed

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What is this an example of? Choose TWO correct answers

natural selection

artificial selection

A new species invading an existing population

Genetic variation within a species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

A German Shepard would probably not survive in the wild because...

the dog is mixed.

the dog is a product of artificial selection and not adapted for the wild.

the dog is dumb.

the dog is a product of natural selection and can survive in the wild.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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