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Evolution Unit Test Study Guide
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The following is a list of vocabulary for which you are responsible on this test. What can you do to
work with these terms? Create your own flashcards. Make Frayer diagrams.
Absolute age
Endangered
species
Fault
Index fossil
Natural
selection
Speciation
Acquired
traits
Era
Adaptation
Atom
Catastrophism
Element
Evolution
Extant
Extinct
Extrusion
Fossil
Fossil record
Genes
Half-life
Inherited
traits
Paleontologist
Intrusion
Law of
superposition
Radioactive decay
Geologic time
scale
Mass
extinction
Relative age
Stratigraphic
column
Unconformity Uniformitarianism Variation
Paleontology
Mutations
Scientific theory
The following are concepts for which you are responsible on this test. You may write directly on this
sheet, on notebook paper, or type. Be sure to attach this sheet to your final study guide.
How evolution occurs:
DNA
DNA
Genes
Genes
Mutations
Variations
Mutations
if good (advantageous) Adaptation
Variations
if bad (detrimental)
Speciation
Extinction
Evolution
Evolution
Multiple mutations over many generations can lead to speciation.
1. What is the most widely accepted scientific explanation of the formation of our Universe?
2. What is the most widely accepted scientific explanation of the formation of our Solar System?
3. Explain the Law of Superposition. What does this Law help us determine? Which layers are
oldest? Which layers are youngest? What happens when there is an
unconformity/intrusion/extrusion? Sketch a picture.
4. Explain catastrophism and the Law of Uniformitarianism. Sketch a picture.
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5. What do paleontologists study?
6. What types of things fossilize? Why do we not see a lot of single-celled fossils in the fossil
record?
7. How do paleontologists use the fossil record to learn about evolution?
8. What is an index fossil? Give an example.
9. What does the term “Biodiversity” or “Diversity of species” mean?
10. What types of events (things) can lead to the extinction of a species.
11. Put the following in order of when they evolved: amphibians, birds, mammals, fish, bacteria,
reptiles. Which came first: whales or land-dwelling mammals? How do we know?
12. Who was Charles Darwin & what were his major contributions to the development of the
Theory of Evolution? What role did the Galapagos Islands play in his research? Give some
examples.
13. What causes variation in a population?
14. What is the role of mutations in evolution?
15. What is a trade-off?
16. What traits can be passed down from generation to generation? Which traits cannot?
17. What is evolution? How does speciation and extinction fit into the big picture of evolution?
18. What can you learn from DNA as it relates to the relationship between species?
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Big ideas from the Geologic Time Scale: Refer to your “open note” Geologic Time Scale
Quiz.
Cenozoic Era – began approximately 65 mya – Known as “Age of Mammals”
Quaternary – began approx. 1.6 mya – Homo sapiens appeared, multiple ice ages
Tertiary (Neogene & Paleogene) – first Hominids appeared (ancestors of humans)
Mesozoic Era – began approximately 245 mya – Kwown as “Age of Reptiles”
Cretaceous – ended approx. 65 mya when an asteroid struck Earth. Mass Extinction
Jurassic
Triassic – dinosaurs first appeared
Paleozoic Era – began approximately 544 mya (million years ago) “Explosion of Life”
Permian – ended approx. 245 mya – catastrophic event occurred causing much of life on Earth
to go extinct.
Carboniferous (Mississippian & Pennsylvanian)
Devonian – “Age of Fishes”
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian – 4.6 bya to 5445 mya = 88% of Earth’s history
Water first appeared
Atmosphere formed
Land formed
First life appeared approximately 3.5 bya (according to fossil record)
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