Evolution by Natural Selection Test Review

Question 1

T or F? Evolution is as much a fact as that planets go around the sun.

Answer 1

True.

Question 2

T or F? Evolution is something a person should either believe in, or not believe in.

Answer 2

False.

Question 3

T or F? Evolution is a process that includes the origin of life.

Answer 3

False.

Question 4

T or F? Evolution is primarily concerned with the origin of humans.

Answer 4

False.

Question 5

T or F? According to evolution, people came from monkeys a long time ago.

Answer 5

False. humans and chimps share a common ancestor

Question 6

T or F? Evolution was first proposed and explained by Charles Darwin

Answer 6

False. By Herbert Spencer

Question 7

T or F? Evolution is also known as “Natural Selection”.

Answer 7

False. explains how - Evolution by Natural Selection

Question 8

T or F? Evolution is something that happened only in the past; it is not happening now

Answer 8

False.

Question 9

T or F? Evolution is something that happens to individual organisms.

Answer 9

False.

Question 10

T or F? Evolution is a totally random process, a series of accidents.

Answer 10

False. only mutations are random

Question 11

T or F? Evolution was developed as an idea to destroy or undermine religion.

Answer 11

False. Roman Catholic Church accepted this evolution

Question 12

T or F? In order to accept evolution as a real process, you cannot believe in God.

Answer 12

False.

Question 13

T or F? Most major religions in America have officially declared that they have NO conflict with evolution.

Answer 13

True.

Question 14

T or F? Evolution simply means “change”.

Answer 14

False. means decent with modification

Question 15

T or F? Evolution is only a theory.

Answer 15

True.

Question 16

T or F? Fossils reveal many problems that evolution cannot explain.

Answer 16

True.

Question 17

T or F? Evolution has been tested and challenged many times,but has always been supported by the results.

Answer 17

False.

Question 18

T or F? Evolution involves individuals changing in order to to adapt to their environment.

Answer 18

True.

Question 19

T or F? According to evolution, new species usually result from major mutations in a single generation.

Answer 19

False.

Question 20

T or F? Big dinosaurs were common during the time of early humans.

Answer 20

False.

Question 21

Steps to Natural Selection.

Answer 21

• Variation in traits within a population.
• An environmental pressure or change.
• Differential reproduction.
• Heredity
• Evolution by Natural Selection

Question 22

What are the Lines of Evolution Evidence?

Answer 22

• Genetics
• Fossil Record
• Embryology
• Homologous Structure
• Vestigial Structure

Question 23

Genetic Drift

Answer 23

Change in an allele (trait) frequencies due to chance. Causes a loss of genetic diversity in a population.

Question 24

Bottleneck effect

Answer 24

Genetic drift that occurs after an event greatly reduces the size of a population. Through this certain alleles are completely lost from the gene pool.

Question 25

Gene Pool

Answer 25

Combined alleles of all the individuals in a population

Question 26

Genetic Diversity

Answer 26

Directly related to the success and survival of a species.

Question 27

Speciation is the process of what?

Answer 27

Through which new species arise.

Question 28

Speciation requires what?

Answer 28

Geologic Isolation

Question 29

Biodiversity is what 3 things?

Answer 29

- diversity of ecosystems - variety of species - variety within species

Question 30

What is Micro-evolution?

Answer 30

Small changes within a population

Question 31

What is Macro-evolution?

Answer 31

Grand scale evolution over a period of time