- 1. What is the name of Darwin's book in which he introduces natural selection and evolution?
A) Survival of the Fittest
B) Mutations on the Brain
C) Origin of species
D) Adam and Eve?
- 2. Which of the following had the smallest braincase?
A) Homo sapiens
B) Neanderthals
C) australopithicenes
- 3. What is the name of the type of scientists who look for and examine bones?
A) astrologist
B) archaeologists
C) minerologist
D) physicists
- 4. The bones of the first human ancestors were found on this continent.
A) North America
B) Asia
C) Africa
D) Australia
- 5. Scientists can determine the age of fossils by measuring the amount of carbon isotopes in the bones. What is this method is called?
A) Philo-Carbon Dating
B) Virtual Dating
C) Chemical Analysis Dating
D) Radio-Carbon Dating
- 6. All of the genes in a population make up this.
A) Gene variation
B) Gene pool
C) Gene selection
D) Gene differentiation
- 7. On which islands did Darwin make many important observations, including those about the finches?
A) Galapogos
B) Canary
C) Polynesian
D) Antilles
- 8. Which type of animals are warm-blooded?
A) Amphibians
B) Reptiles
C) Fish
D) Mammals
- 9. In what type of rock could you find fossils?
A) Sedimentary
B) Metamorphic
C) Igneous
- 10. What was the name of the ship Darwin sailed on?
A) L.T.D. Summit
B) H.M.S. Beagle
C) H.S.C. Felix
D) I.T.E. Melrose
- 11. Most living organisms started in the water.
A) False
B) True
- 12. The belief that the Bible should be taken literally.
A) God-Centered
B) Creationism
C) Evolution
D) Biblism
- 13. A change in an organisms DNA happens because of...
A) a mutation
B) a Galapogos
C) a Peppered Moth
D) Darwin
- 14. What advantage do reptiles have over amphibians?
- 15. Whales have gills that allow them to breath underwater.
A) True
B) False
- 16. In 2-3 complete sentences, describe how the ancestors of whales moved from the land to the sea. Why was being in the water an advantage to being on land? What adaptations did they have that led
- 17. Process by which the best traits are passed on to the next generation and bad traits are weeded out.
A) Gene therapy
B) Natural Selection
C) Prevolition
D) Mutation
- 18. Which of the following must reproduce in the water?
A) mammals
B) reptiles
C) birds
D) amphibians
- 19. In 2-3 sentences describe what Darwin discovered about the finches during his travels to the Galapogos islands.
- 20. Dinosaurs were almost completely wiped out by a giant asteroid hitting the earth 65 million years ago. This killed most of the plants and animals on earth. Out of the destruction, small dinosaurs survived and eventually evolved into birds over millions of years. Why did these small dinosaurs survive?
- 21. What is the major advantage that modern humans (homo sapiens) have over their ancestors Australophithicus Afarensis (Lucy)?
- 22. Explain the process of evolution. Include the terms mutation and environment. Describe how mutations can be helpful, unhelpful, or neutral and how this leads to new species.
- 23. What was the first living organism on earth?
A) Bacteria
B) Plants
C) Animals
D) Fungi
E) Protists
- 24. Describe why peppered moths changed from white to black over several generations?
- 25. All mutations are helpful.
A) False
B) True
- 26. Give a full lab report for the beak lab (where you had a duck bill and a pointy bill). Give the Problem, Hypothesis, IV and DV, Results, and Conclusion
- 27. Describe the differences between mitosis and meiosis.
- 28. What are 3-4 factors that influence evolution
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