1. 5.Particles of soil , carried by wind or water, that are
1. Multiple Choice Questions deposited in layers - eventually my form sedimentary
rock.
a. Extinct
1. Preserved remains or evidence of an ancient organism. b. Species
a. evolution c. Biotic
b. fitness d. Sediment
c. theory
d. fossil 6.The process by which individuals that are better adapted
to their environment survive and reproduce more
2. Principle that each living species has descended, with successfully than less well adapted individuals do
changes, from other species over time a. natural selection
a. artificial selection b. variation
b. descent with modification c. Population
c. natural selection d. Adaptation
d. vestigial organ
7. Organ that serves no useful function in an organism,
3. Principle that all living things were derived from scientists believe it is a "leftover" from a primitive
common ancestors ancestor
a. common descent a. vestigial organ
b. fossil b. Mesozoic Era
c. evolution c. variation
d. fitness d. Cenozoic Era
4. Process by which individuals that are better suited to
their environment survive and reproduce most
successfully; also called survival of the fittest.
a. evolution 8. Similar structures that related species have inherited
b. adaptation from a common ancestor
c. natural selection a. Half-Life
d. artificial selection b. Natural Selection
c. HomologousStructures
d. BranchingTree
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2. 9. Which of the following best describes the word
“biodiversity”?
a. endangered species
b. different kinds of planets in the solar system
c. the variety of all life on earth
d. biographiesaboutfamousbiologists
True/False Questions
10. homologous structure → structures that have different mature forms in different organisms but
develop from the same embryonic tissues
True False
11. fitness → preserved remains or evidence of an ancient organism
True False
12. survival of the fittest → process by which individuals that are better suited to their enviornment
survive and reproduce most successfully; also called natural selection
True False
13. struggle for existence → competition among members of a species for food, living space, and the
other necessities of life
True False
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3. 14. Which of the following is an example of an ecosystem b. bake bread
service? c. live in a world free of dead things lying allover
a. a ladybird beetle that protects your garden by the place
eating aphid pests d. put blue cheese dressing on your salad
b. a company that rakes people’s yards
c. a wetland that filters dirty water 19. What’s the most serious threat to biodiversity?
d. an ocean that controls the earth’s climate. a. scientists collecting specimens
b. habitat loss correct
15. Some of the world’s most fascinating creatures live in c. tourists
really unusual places. Which of the followingis sometimes a d. pollution
home for another living thing?
a. a caterpillar’s abdomen 20. If we gave a prize for “the strongest creature forits size,”
b. a termite’s gut which of the following would win?
c. a white-tailed deer’s intestine a. bobcat
d. a human’s forehead b. bald eagle
c. ant
16. Biodiversity includes: d. turtle
a. the color of your eyes
b. the creatures in your neighborhood soil 21. Which of the following environments on our planet are
c. Colombia d. your classmates too harsh to support life?
a. boiling sulfur springs, where temperatures are
17. Which of the following statements are true? commonly 212° Fahrenheit (100° Celsius)
a. Potatoes originated in Ireland. b. deep-sea hydrothermal vents called “smokers,”
b. The United States grows most of its baking where the temperature can reach 662°
potatoes in Washington. Fahrenheit(350° Celsius)
c. More than 5,000 different kinds of potatoes have c. the frigid ice of the Arctic and Antarctic
been identified in South America’s Andes d. all of the above
Mountains. e. none of the above
d. The French fry, invented by Madame Bonaparte
during the French Revolution, became one of
Napoleon’s favorite snacks.
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18. Without fungi, which of the following would you not be mammals?
able to do?
a. eat pizza topped with pepperoni and mushrooms
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¡Enjoy the science!
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