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Ancient Life
Test Description: Importance of the fossil record and how the past relates to discoveries in the future.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which conclusion can be made based on existing fossil evidence?
A
Present life forms have always existed.
B
The Earth's environment has always been the same.
C
All life forms will remain the same in the future.
D
Many life forms have become extinct.
2) Which inference can be made about the fossil record?
A
Primitive humans have existed through most of the geologic past.
B
A great variety of plants and animals existed during the Precambrian Era.
C
Fossils were extremely rare for most of the geologic past.
D
Very few life forms have become extinct.
3) The fossil record provides evidence that primitive humans were alive on Earth at the same time as the
A
mammoths
B
earliest birds
C
dinosaurs
D
armored fish
4) Which is the most probable reason that few Precambrian fossils are found today?
A
No sedimentary rocks were formed during the Precambrian Era.
B
Precambrian fossils are abundant but not readily observable.
C
No life existed during the Precambrian Era.
D
Precambrian organisms had few, if any, hard parts.
5) The climate that existed during the Silurian Period can best be determined by studying
A
the present climate
B
faults found in the bedrock
C
fossils found in the bedrock
D
the present stream drainage patterns
6) Which statement is best about dinosaurs?
A
They developed from early mammals.
B
They were the first land animals.
C
They became extinct before the Cenozoic Era.
D
They were abundant during the start of the last continental ice age.
7) Which fossils could most likely be found in the bedrock within a lakes area?
A
fish
B
mammals
C
reptiles
D
birds
8) Which fact provides the best evidence for the scientific theory of the evolutionary development of life on the Earth?
A
Characteristics of simpler forms of life can be found in more complex forms of life.
B
Most species of life on the Earth have become extinct.
C
Fossils are found almost exclusively in sedimentary rocks.
D
Only a small percentage of living things have been preserved as fossils.
9) Studies of the fossil record indicate that
A
variations within a species have had little effect upon the survival of the species
B
there is no evidence for evolutionary development among the different fossil species
C
variations within a species can be observed, measured, and described
D
few of the species of plants and animals that existed have become extinct
10) Theories of evolution suggest that variations between members of the same species give the species greater probability of
A
becoming extinct
B
becoming fossilized
C
surviving environmental changes
D
remaining unchanged
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