Week 7: How Humans Came to Be

Week 7: How Humans Came to Be

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Week 7: How Humans Came to Be

Week 7: How Humans Came to Be

Assessment

Quiz

Created by

Akshayaa Venkatakrishnan

Science, Biology, Social Studies

9th - 12th Grade

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Medium

NGSS
MS-LS4-2, MS-LS4-1, HS-ESS1-2

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25 questions

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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

Media Image

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

Which of the following is NOT true about the Big Bang Theory?
It is the scientific explanation of how life began on Earth and evolved over time.
It is the scientific explanation for the origin of the universe.
It states that the universe expanded from a single point and is still expanding today.
It states that the universe used to be much hotter and smaller.

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