Q.1
What is a fossil?
  • A very old person
  • Any evidence of a plant or animal that lived ages ago
  • Any very old sedimentary rock
  • A skeleton of an animal
Q.2
What does evolution mean?
  • Gradual change
  • Gradual reproduction
  • Gradual excretion
  • Gradual knowledge
Q.3
In natural selection, the individuals which survive are described as being which of the following?
  • Better trained
  • Better adapted
  • Better suited
  • Better known
Q.4
Darwin's theory was not accepted at first because of objections by which organisation?
  • The Government
  • The People
  • The Church
  • The Police
Q.5
What did Lamark's theory of evolution state?
  • That life evolved from apes
  • That the use of a feature allowed it to develop and be passed on and vice-versa
  • That evolution caused changes to skip a generation
  • That features could arise and then be lost
Q.6
The organisms which survive can then breed and pass on what?
  • Their jeans
  • Their pants
  • Their alleles
  • Their trousers
Q.7
Why are there gaps in the fossil record?
  • Many organisms do not survive
  • Not all organisms have been preserved
  • Many fossils have been destroyed by war
  • Fossils have been stolen from museums
Q.8
Variation which leads to new forms of organisms is caused by what?
  • Feeding
  • Excretion
  • Starvation
  • Mutation
Q.9
Evidence for evolution comes from where?
  • Experiments
  • Fossils
  • Genetic engineering
  • Cloning
Q.10
Evolution leads to the formation of which of the following?
  • New ideas
  • New species
  • New theories
  • New morals
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