Biogeography and Natural Selection 9th - 12th Grade Quiz

Biogeography and Natural Selection

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Lacey Rains

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Biology, Science

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9th - 12th Grade

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NGSS

MS-LS4-2, MS-LS4-1, MS-LS4-4

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What is is the study of how and why plants and animals live where they do?

Evolution

Adaptive Radiation

Biogeography

Biogeology

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

A scientist puts 100 houseflies in a sealed container; then sprays an insecticide into the container. Ninety-six of the flies die. Four survive. The scientist lets the survivors mate and produce offspring, then repeats the experiment with 100 offspring. Fifty-six of them survive the spray. This experimental result is evidence of –

adaptive radiation

speciation

natural selection

extinction

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which statement does not accurately describe natural selection?

Individual organisms change their genes to adapt to their environment

The genetic composition of a population changes from one generation to the next

More advantageous traits become more common in population

Beneficial and useful traits are inheritable

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

Steven Hawking

Albert Einstein

Charles Darwin

Isaac Newton

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

Because they come from dominant alleles.

Because they come from recessive alleles.

Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

All primates have the following features EXCEPT:

large brains

arms that rotate at the shoulders

grasping hands

bipedalism

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The ability to walk upright on two legs is called:

bipedalism

quadropedalism

bicyclepedalism

tripedalism

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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