Evolutionary History Vocabulary Quiz

Match the term 'adaptive trait' with its definition.

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

• a related organism from a previous generation

• a part of an organism (for example, one or more bones)

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Match the term 'ancestor' with its definition.

• a related organism from a previous generation

• a part of an organism (for example, one or more bones)

• an older population from which two or more newer species descended

Match the term 'body structure' with its definition.

• a part of an organism (for example, one or more bones)

• a related organism from a previous generation

• a more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population

Match the term 'common ancestor population' with its definition.

• an older population from which two or more newer species descended

• a more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population

• to classify based on scientific examination

Match the term 'descendant species' with its definition.

• a more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population

• to classify based on scientific examination

• everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

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Match the term 'diagnose' with its definition.

• to classify based on scientific examination

• everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

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

Match the term 'environment' with its definition.

• everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

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

• the very long time that spans the history of Earth, from the very first cellular life to the present

Match the term 'evolution' with its definition.

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

• the very long time that spans the history of Earth, from the very first cellular life to the present

• having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth

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Match the term 'evolutionary time' with its definition.

• the very long time that spans the history of Earth, from the very first cellular life to the present

• having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth

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

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Match the term 'extinct' with its definition.

• having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth

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

• a group of individuals born and living at about the same time

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