1. To collect fossils, there are various legal realities that must be observed. Which of the
following statement BEST describes fossils?

A. These are materials that paleontologists use in studying evolution.

B. They are materials that can always be unearthed and displayed.

C. They are traces of organisms that lived in the past and were. preserved by natural processes or catastrophic events in rocks, peat, or ice.

D. Both A and C.
2. What do you call to the fossil that lived in a shallow marine environment during the Ordovician and Silurian periods.?

A. Crinoid B. Dinosaur C. Trilobite D. Vascular plants

3. Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by Charlie Darwin. Which of the following statements does BESTmdescribe the basic tenets of evolution as defined by Darwin?

I. When reproductive isolation occurs, new species will form.

II. Most individuals are produced each generation that can survive .

III. Phenotypic variations exist among individuals and the variation is not inheritable,

IV. Those individuals with heritable traits better suited to the environment will survive.

A. I, II &III

B. I,III & IV

C. I,II & IV

D. II,III & IV

4. Which of the following statements describes the evidence of the evolution of diversity?


I, Moths living around dirty humus evolved darker wings to lend to their sooty environment.

II. Stray dogs that have left humans are evolving more life traits.

III. Bacteria have evolved to outsmart our antibiotics.

A. I only

B. II only

C. III only

D. I, III& III

5. Evolution of biodiversity deals primarily with the evolutionary processes, that generate and maintain organismal and genetic diversity. Which of the following theories explains the evidence of the evolution of biodiversity?

I. The Theory of need

II. The theory of use and disused

III. The Theory of natural selection.

A. I only

B. II only

C. III only

D. I,II & III​