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What type of rock preserves fossils?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Organic
Metamorphic
Igneous
Sedementary
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How are new layers of rock formed?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Beneath the mountains
On top of the topsoil
Beneath the ocean
On top of the mountains
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What are transitional fossils?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Fossils that change over time
Fossils that serve as a “missing link”
Fossils that connect to other fossils
Fossils that are really old
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Who is Tiktaalik?
A.
B.
C.
D.
An ancestral bird with teeth
An ancestral elephant with a short nose
An ancestral horse with toes
An ancestral alligator with fins
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The bone structures in the appendages
of a human, cat, and whale have the
same number of bones. What is that
called?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Homoplasious
Homologous
Analogous
Related
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Who is Archaeopteryx?
A.
B.
C.
D.
An ancestral bird with teeth
An ancestral elephant with a short nose
An ancestral horse with toes
An ancestral alligator with fins
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What time period did humans arise?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Mesozoic
Holocene
Carboniferous
Paleozoic
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What time period were dinosaurs
prominent in?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Cenozoic
Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Holocene
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What is extinction?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The origin of a new species
Coming to an end or dying out of a species
Endangered species
Different characteristics of a species
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What is natural selection?
A. The evolutionary history of a species
B. A group of individuals with similar
characteristics
C. Differential reproductive success of
phenotypes
D. Any alteration of structure, behavior, or
function that makes an organism more
successful.
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What is an adaptation?
A. The evolutionary history of a species
B. A group of individuals with similar
characteristics
C. Differential reproductive success of
phenotypes
D. Any alteration of structure, behavior, or
function that makes an organism more
successful.
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What is a phylogeny?
A. The evolutionary history of a species
B. A group of individuals with similar
characteristics
C. Differential reproductive success of
phenotypes
D. Any alteration of structure, behavior, or
function that makes an organism more
successful.
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What is the definition of a species?
A. The evolutionary history of a species
B. A group of individuals with similar
characteristics
C. Differential reproductive success of
phenotypes
D. Any alteration of structure, behavior, or
function that makes an organism more
successful.
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What is biodiversity?
A. The evidence of a new species evolving
B. The difference in characteristics among
individuals of a species
C. The number and relative abundance of
species in a biological community
D. The dodo bird
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What is speciation?
A. The evidence of a new species evolving
B. The difference in characteristics among
individuals of a species
C. The number and relative abundance of
species in a biological community
D. The dodo bird
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What is variation?
A. The evidence of a new species evolving
B. The difference in characteristics among
individuals of a species
C. The number and relative abundance of
species in a biological community
D. The dodo bird
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What is evolution?
A. The change in life forms over time
B. The differential reproductive success of
phenotypes
C. Organisms that have similar anatomical
characteristics
D. The dodo bird