History of Life Grab bagEvolutionNatural Selection Darwin etc

Category 1 for 1 Question: The earth is 4.5 _______ years old. a) thousand b) million c) billion d) trillion Check Your Answer

Category 1 for 1 Answer: (c) billion Back to the Game Board

Daily double for 4 Question: Which method of dating fossils is the most accurate? Check Your Answer

Daily double for 4 Answer: radiometric dating (uses half-lives) Back to the Game Board

Category 1 for 3 Question: Birds are thought to have evolved from ________ Check Your Answer

Category 1 for 3 Answer: reptiles (or dinosaurs ) Remember Archaeopteryx? Back to the Game Board

Category 1 for 4 Question: Which two are most closely related? Why? a)shark b) whale c) dolphin Check Your Answer

Category 1 for 4 Back to the Game Board Answer: whale and dolphin – both are mammals

Category 1 for 5 Question: Endosymbiosis explains the origin of _______ and ________ in eukaryotic cells. Check Your Answer

Category 1 for 5 Answer: mitochondria and chloroplasts Back to the Game Board

Daily Double for 2 Question: Which was NOT an animal studied by Darwin on the Galapagos Islands? a)Finchb) Elephant c) Tortoised) Iguana Check Your Answer

Category 2 for 2 Answer: b) elephant Back to the Game Board

Category 2 for 2 Question: This scientist suggested that acquired traits are passed to offspring. (a) Mendel (b) Darwin (c) Lamarck (d) Weinberg Check Your Answer

Category 2 for 2 Answer: (c) Lamarck Back to the Game Board

Category 2 for 3 Question: Darwin proposed the idea of ___________ ______________ to explain how species change over time. Check Your Answer

Category 2 for 3 Answer: natural selection Back to the Game Board

Category 2 for 4 Question: The number of offspring an individual has is a measure of their evolutionary _ _ _ _ _ _ _. Check Your Answer

Category 2 for 4 Answer: fitness Back to the Game Board

Category 2 for 5 Question: A structure, behavior, or internal process that enables an organism to better survive in an environment is a(n) ________. Check Your Answer

Category 2 for 5 Answer: adaptation Back to the Game Board

Category 3 for 1 Question: As opposed to natural selection, when breeders intentionally mate certain animals, it is known as _________ selection. Check Your Answer

Category 3 for 1 Answer: artificial Back to the Game Board

Category 3 for 2 Question: A structural adaptation that enables one species to resemble another species is called _________. Check Your Answer

Category 3 for 2 Answer: mimicry Back to the Game Board

Category 3 for 3 Question: This graph is showing _________ selection. Check Your Answer

Category 3 for 3 Answer: stabilizing Back to the Game Board

Category 3 for 4 Question: The darkening of the peppered moths is an example of which type of selection? (a) stabilizing (b) directional (c) disruptive (d) artificial Check Your Answer

Category 3 for 4 Answer: b) directional Back to the Game Board

Category 3 for 5 Name the four principles of natural selection. Check Your Answer

Category 3 for 5 Back to the Game Board Answer: 1.Overpopulation 2.Variation 3.Selection 4.Adaptation You might remember this by “Orange Violins Sound Amazing”.

Category 4 for 1 Question: A human arm, an alligator front leg, and a bat wing are called _______ structures. (a) analogous (b) homologous (c) vestigial (d) embryological Check Your Answer

Category 4 for 1 Answer: homologous Back to the Game Board

Category 4 for 2 Question: The wings of birds and the wings of butterflies are examples of ______ structures. (a) analogous (b) homologous (c) vestigial (d) embryological Check Your Answer

Category 4 for 2 Answer: (a) analogous Back to the Game Board

Category 4 for 3 Question: Name 3 vestigial structures in humans. Check Your Answer

Category 4 for 3 Answer: ear muscles, appendix, wisdom teeth. Back to the Game Board

Category 4 for 4 Question: Give an example of mimicry. Check Your Answer

Category 4 for 4 Answer: King snake and coral snake, yellow jacket wasp and harmless syrphid fly Back to the Game Board

Category 4 for 5 Question: Name 3 of the 5 pieces of evidence for evolution. Check Your Answer

Category 4 for 5 Answer: 1) Fossils 2)Homologous structures 3)Vestigial structures 4)Embryology 5)Biological molecules – DNA and proteins Back to the Game Board

Daily Double for 2 Question: Name the three types of natural selection. Check Your Answer

Category 5 for 2 Answer: directional, stabilizing, disruptive Back to the Game Board

Category 5 for 2 Question: Whales are thought to have evolved from land-dwelling mammals. Is this macroevolution or microevolution? Check Your Answer

Category 5 for 2 Answer: macroevolution Back to the Game Board

Category 5 for 3 Question: When an ancestral species evolves into an array of species to fit a number of diverse habitats, the result is called: a)convergent evolutionb) mimicry c) adaptive radiation d) reproductive isolation Check Your Answer

Category 5 for 3 Answer: c) adaptive radiation example: Darwin’s finches Back to the Game Board

Category 5 for 4 Question: Name two types of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Check Your Answer

Category 5 for 4 Answer: tuberculosis, pneumonia, and MRSA (staph) Back to the Game

Category 5 for 5 Question: Name the 2 strategies used by male crickets. What is the advantage and disadvantage of each? Check Your Answer

Category 5 for 5 Answer: (1) calling (2) sneakiness Advantage to calling is that females respond, disadvantage is that something might kill you. Advantage to sneakiness is that you can find a female some other cricket attracted, disadvantage is that you rely on someone else to call Back to the Game Board

Extra question #1: 2 points After two half-lives, how much of an original radioactive material will be left?

¼ will be left

Extra question #2 (2 points) The idea that speciation occurs quickly, in rapid bursts, with long periods of stability in between is called: a)gradualism b)punctuated equilibrium c)reproductive isolation d)adaptive radiation

b) punctuated equilibrium

Extra question #3 (2 points) Elephants shifting toward the tuskless phenotype would be an example of: a)macroevolution b)microevolution c)stabilizing selection d)convergent evolution

a) microevolution

Extra question #4 (2 points) Why is it much harder to treat tuberculosis today than it was 30 years ago?

Because we have used antibiotics so much, the TB bacteria have evolved resistance to the antibiotics

Extra Question #5 (2 points) Calcium-40 has 20 protons and 20 neutrons. How many protons and neutrons would be found in Calcium-42?

20 protons, 22 neutrons