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The Grand Finale

 4th Grade Easy
What do tadpoles turn into?
 4th Grade Easy Answer
Frogs
 5th Grade Easy
Who first published a theory about
evolution?
A) Darwin

B) Smith

C) Beasley

D) Johnson
 5th Grade Easy Answer
Who first published a theory
about evolution?
A) Darwin
 6th Grade Easy
What are warm blooded animals
called?
A) amphibians

B) reptiles

C) mammals

D) fish
 6th Grade Easy Answer
What are warm blooded animals
called?

C) mammals
 7th Grade Easy
What are cold blooded animals
called?
A) mammals

B) bacteria

C) protists

D) reptiles
 7th Grade Easy Answer
What are cold blooded animals
called?

D) reptiles
 8th Grade Easy
In what type of rock are fossils
typically found?
A) metamorphic

B) igneous

C) sedimentary
 8th Grade Easy Answer
In what type of rock are fossils
typically found?
A) metamorphic

B) igneous

C) sedimentary
 4th Grade Medium
What was the name of the ship he
sailed on?
A) H.M.S. Beagle

B) L.T.D. Summit

C) H.S.C. Felix

D) I.T.E. Melrose
4th Grade Medium Answer
What was the name of the ship he
sailed on?
A) H.M.S. Beagle
 5th Grade Medium
Which of the following had the
smallest braincase?
A) Australopithicans

B) Homo sapiens

C) Neanderthals
5th Grade Medium Answer
Which of the following had the
smallest braincase?
A) Australopithicans
 6th Grade Medium
What is the name of Darwin’s
original book on evolution?
A) Survival of the Fittest

B) Origin of Species

C) Mutations on the Brain

D) Adam and Eve?

 6th Medium Answer
What is the name of Darwin’s
original book on evolution?
A) Survival of the Fittest

B) Origin of Species

C) Mutations on the Brain

D) Adam and Eve?

 7th Grade Medium
What is the name of the type of
scientists who look for and
examine bones?
7th Grade Medium Answer
What is the name of the type of
scientists who look for and
examine bones?

archaeologists
 8th Grade Medium
What observation did Darwin make
about finches on the different
islands of the Galapogos?
 8th Grade Medium Answer

What observation did Darwin

make about finches on the
different islands of the
Galapogos?

Their beaks were different

depending on what island they
lived on.
 4th grade difficult
True or False: If a person carries a
dominant trait, they will show this
trait.
4th Grade Difficult Answer

True or False: If a person carries

a dominant trait, they will show
this trait.
True
 5th Grade Difficult
When this occurs, DNA is altered.
5th Grade Difficult Answer
Mutation
 6th Grade Difficult
The bones of the first human
ancestors were found on this
continent.
6th Grade Difficult Answer
The bones of the first human
ancestors came were found on
this continent.

Africa
 7th Grade Difficult
Scientists can determine the age of
fossils by measuring the amount of
carbon isotopes in the bones.
What is this method is called?
7th Grade Difficult Answer
Scientists can determine the age
of fossils by measuring the
amount of carbon isotopes in
the bones. What is this method
is called?

Radio carbon dating

 8th Grade Difficult
What is it called when one group or
species has the traits to survive and
another does not have the traits to
survive?
8th Grade Difficult Answer
What is it called when one group
or species has the traits to
survive and another does not
have the traits to survive?

Survival of the fittest or

Natural Selection
 4th Grade Challenge
On what continent were the bones of
the earliest human ancestors
found?
4th Grade Challenge Answer
On what continent were the bones
of the earliest human ancestors
found?

Africa
5th Grade Challenge Question
All of the genes in a population make
up this.
A) Gene selection

B) Gene differentiation

C) Gene pool

D) Gene variation
5th Grade Challenge Answer
All of the genes in a population
make up this.

C) Gene pool
6th Grade Challenge Question
Why is a staph infection so bad?
6th Grade Challenge Answer

Why is a staph infection so bad?

The bacteria has evolved an

immunity to antibiotics and
cannot be treated with typical
medications.
7th Grade Challenge Question
What was the first living organism on
earth?
7th Grade Challenge Answer

What was the first living

organism on earth?

Bacteria
8th Grade Challenge Question
Why have sponges (one of the
simplest and oldest living
organisms) stayed around for over
a billion years while dinosaurs and
other animals have evolved and
then become extinct?
8th Grade Challenge Answer

Sponges are much simpler

organisms than dinosaurs and
other animals. They compete
for less food and have fewer
predators, therefore they
developed and continue to
thrive when larger, more
complex animals die off.
 The Grand Finale

Give a basic timeline of evolution

 Grand Finale Answer
Bacteria, Protists, Sponges, Trilobites,
Arthropods, Jawless Fish, Reptiles,
Dinosaurs, Birds, Large Mammals,
Humans