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Darwin And Natural Selection
Test Description: A quiz review over what you have learned about Charles Darwin and natural selection.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What was Darwin's role on the Beagle?
A
Collecting biological specimans
B
Scrubbing the decks
C
Captian
D
Clergyman
2) Lamarck's mechanism of change can be called
A
natural selection
B
gradualism
C
selective breeding
D
inheritance of acquired characteristics
3) Lamarck wrote an important book talking about
A
the movement of the continents
B
how organisms could change
C
that fossils were extinct organisms
D
the old age of the Earth
4) What observations did Darwin make that suggested there had been geological changes in Earth's history?
A
fossil shells on top of mountains
B
fossils of giant sloths
C
giant tortoises
D
an absence of rabbits in South America
5) Darwin was spurred to finally publish his theory of natural selection by the writings of which scientist?
A
Lamarck
B
Wallace
C
Hutton
D
Lyell
6) Which is the best example of organisms that have been naturally selected?
A
Dark-colored peppered moths on soot-covered tree bark during the Industrial Revolution.
B
Light-colored peppered moths on soot-covered tree bark during the Industrial Revolution.
7) What is a key part of Darwin's idea of natural selection?
A
More individuals are born than can live on available resources.
B
Everything has a predator.
C
Organisms' characteristics are carried on DNA.
D
Earth is very old.
8) Which of these is the foundation for relative dating?
A
Deeper rock strata are older.
B
Organisms can be closely related to each other.
C
Radioisotopes decay at a constant rate.
D
Earth is very old.
9) Radioisotopes tell scientists that Earth is how old?
A
65 million years
B
4.5 billion years
C
500 million years
D
13.4 billion years
10) What are homologous structures in different species evidence of?
A
similar adaptations to their environments.
B
inheritance of acquired characteristics
C
a common ancestor
D
natural selection against a trait
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