Evolution Quiz

Question 1

Vestigial Structure

Answer 1

Structure that is inherited from an ancestor but is not needed/or not used as much as it was in the ancestor

Question 2

Homologous structures

Answer 2

similar physical features in species that share a common ancestor, but the structures are used for completely different things in each organism

Question 3

Analogous Structures

Answer 3

Similarly functioning and physical features in organisms that do not share a common ancestor

Question 4

Coevolution

Answer 4

When species interact closely with each other and evolve because of that.

Question 5

Convergent Evolution

Answer 5

Distantly related organisms independently evolve similar traits to adapt to similar necessities

Question 6

Adaptive evolution

Answer 6

When organisms of a single lineage diverge into different adaptive forms

Question 7

Speciation

Answer 7

when a group within a species separates from other members of its species and develops its own unique characteristics.

Question 8

Embryology

Answer 8

the study of the formation and development of an embryo and fetus

Question 9

Law of superposition

Answer 9

The youngest rock is the top layer and the oldest rock is the bottom layer when you have rock layers, so when a fossil is buried you look at the layer of rock to explain how old it is