Evolution Quiz

1. The gradual orderly change in the events of the universe including both non-living and living things is called the:
A Creationist Theory
B Theory of Evolution
C Theory of Natural Selection
2. Living organisms containing many carbon-based compounds are said to:
A carbonic
B inorganic
C organic
3. The chart divided into eras and periods that shows the bacteria formation from non-living compounds 4000 million years ago to the development of complex organisms today is the:
A evolutionary time frame
B geological time scale
C organic scale
4. The English naturalist who wrote 'Origin of Species' was:
A Jean de Lamarck
B Alfred Wallace
C Charles Darwin
5. The variety of different genes and characteristics of a species in a given area is the:
A variation
B adaptation
C gene frequency
6. A change in the nucleotide sequence in a gene or a change in a chromosome is called:
A an adaptation
B a mutation
C isolation
7. The movement of the crustal plates over millions of years is called the Theory of:
A Natural Selection
B Plate Tectonics
C Evolution
8. The Theory of Natural Selection is often wrongly described as:
A Lamarck's Theory
B survival of the fittest
C inorganic evolution
9. The development of a new species that can no longer interbreed with its ancestors is known as:
Aspeciation
Bmutation
Cisolation
10. The time it takes for half of the original mass of a radioactive substance to break down is the:
Ahalf-life
Bisotope
Chalf-time
11. Older rocks are usually found:
Ain marine environments only
Bcloser to the earth's surface than younger rocks
Cdeeper beneath the earth's surface than younger rocks
12. Index fossils are:
Afossils of bony fingers
Busually found in volcanic rocks
Cused to date rocks
13. An example of an homologous structure is:
Athe same scale-like covering of whales
Bthe appendix of humans and arachnids
Cthe pentadactyl limbs of human and seals
14. The half-life of carbon-14 is about:
A5 thousand years
B5 million years
C5 billion years
15. An example of a vestigial organ is the:
Atail of a human foetus
Bwing of a butterfly
Cscales of a tortoise
 
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