Week 7: How Humans Came to Be

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Akshayaa Venkatakrishnan
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Science, Biology, Social Studies
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9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a scientist that studies fossils?
Paleontologist
Fossiologist
Dinologist
Physicist
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What provides evidence about the history of life on Earth, and shows how organisms change through time?
fossil record
index fossil
geologic time scale
half-life
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Which statement about Homo habilis describes a capability that helped their group survive?
They knew how to make tools
They came before Neanderthals.
They lived 1.5 million years ago.
They had both ape and human features.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The ability to walk upright on two legs is called:
bipedalism
quadropedalism
bicyclepedalism
tripedalism
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mass extinction would most likely result from which of the following events?
A disease kills off a single species of predator within an ecosystem
A wildfire burns a national park
Global temperatures drop several degrees after several massive volcanic eruptions
A massive earthquake strikes North America
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
____________ & _________________ are organelles that arose from prokaryotes, according to the endosymbiotic theory
Nucleus and cell membrane
Chloroplast and mitochondria
Mitochondria and nucleus
Cell wall and chloroplast
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A preserved remnant or impression of an organism that lived in the past.
Hox Genes
Common Ancestor
Fossil
Stasis
8.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which word describes a species that has died out over time?
extinct
extruded
extracted
exstanked
9.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This type of DNA exists in a specific organelle and only is passed down from the mother.
Mitochondrial DNA
Nuclear DNA
Chloroplastic DNA
Membranic DNA
10.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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