Evolution

Evolution

8th Grade

25 Qs

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Evolution

Evolution

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Su Min Ha

FREE Resource

25 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This scientist came up with the idea of natural selection.
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Gregor Mendel
Charles Darwin
Thomas Malthus

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.
Fossil
Adaptation
Ancestor
Natural selection

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Survival of the fittest or when favorable adaptations reproduce faster is called what?
Evolution
Adaptation
Natural selection
Fossilization

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image
Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry
vestigial structures
homologous structures
adaptive radiation
fossil

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image
Which of the following is an example of a vestigial structure?
the wings of a red-tailed hawk
the hind limbs of a house cat
the fins of sharks
the tailbone of a human

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why aren’t fossils of every organism that has ever lived preserved?

Many organisms decompose too quickly to become fossils

They do, the fossils are just destroyed

Some plants and animals do not have carbon in them

Many organisms are too large to form fossils

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Charles Darwin’s observation that finches of different species on the Galápagos Islands have many similar physical characteristics supports the hypothesis that these finches 
 
acquired traits through use and disuse.
all eat the same type of food.
descended from a common ancestor.

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