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EVOLUTION CHECK-IN QUIZ

Use the following resources to complete this quiz: Evolution PowerPoint with voice over,
your completed Evolution Notes, and the Unit 5 Big Pic Pages.
Read the statements below. Write a “T”/A if you believe the entire statement is true.
Write an “F”/B if you believe the statement is false.

1) _t/a__ Evolution is a slow process.

2) ___f/b____ Logic suggests that if environments are different, the organisms that live there
would be.

3) __t/a___ Darwin published his book about natural selection in 1895.

4) _t/a____ The most important requirements for evolution are DNA and TIME.

5) __f/b___ Darwin’s most well-understood example of natural selection are the Galapagos
Turtles.

6) _f/b____ Natural Selection acts on individuals (like you and me) NOT on entire populations.

7) _f/b____ In the peppered moth example, the light-colored moths originally had an advantage.

8) _t/a____ Evolution is the theory that species/populations change over time.

9) _f/b____ Darwin collected his data while traveling around the world on the HMS Beagle for 5
years.

10) _t/a___ Genetic changes in organisms are random.

11) _t/a____ Darwin created the idea of evolution.

12) _t/a____ The 3rd summarizing step of Darwin’s Theory is “all offspring are different”.

13) _t/a____ Natural Selection says that organisms that are best-suited to their environment
are more likely to survive and grow.

14) _f/b____ In the brown/green beetle example, Darwin would say that the brown one is being
selected for.

15) _t/a____ Darwin traveled to every continent as he gathered data.

16) _t/a____ Darwin published his ideas about evolution in a book he wrote called The Origin of
Species.
 __f/b__ The 1st summarizing step of Darwin’s Theory is “organisms make too many offspring”.

18) __f/b___ Darwin’s job on the H.M.S. Beagle was to be the zoologist.