Life Has A History Quiz!
9 Questions
| Total Attempts: 203
This is a quiz to check your prior knowledge regarding the history of life on earth.
Questions and Answers
- 1.Extinction is common.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Without variation, evolution cannot happen.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Millions of years passed between the extinction of dinosaurs and the appearance of the first humans.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.A cladogram is a diagram that shows how a group of organisms might be related to each other.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.There are more mammals on Earth today than any other group of animals.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Of all the species that have ever lived on this planet, how many have gone extinct?
- A.
More than 90%
- B.
60-80%
- C.
30-60%
- D.
10-30%
- 7.Natural selection is an important mechanism for evolution. If there is a change in the environment, which of the following statements is correct:
- A.
Individual organisms will evolve in order to survive and reproduce.
- B.
Those organisms that have features that can take advantage of the environmental change will survive and reproduce.
- C.
Those organisms that are the strongest will survive and reproduce.
- 8.Name three kinds of fossils other than bones and teeth.
- 9.Name three kinds of evidence that scientists use to determine common ancestry.
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