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Biology quiz for grade 11: Evolution of life

This quiz helps revise “Evolution of life” in Biology for grade 11. It has 25 questions in five categories: Evolutionary forces, Evidence of evolution, Making new species, Patterns of change, History of life. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 16–17
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Evolution of life

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Evolutionary forces

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What process makes heritable traits that increase reproductive success become more common over generations?

  2. 200

    What process is the ultimate source of new alleles in a population?

  3. 300

    What is the movement…

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  4. 400

    What chance process changes…

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  5. 500

    What form of drift…

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Evidence of evolution

  1. 100

    What evidence directly preserves remains or traces of organisms from past geological ages?

  2. 200

    What term describes body parts in different species that share a basic plan inherited from a common ancestor?

  3. 300

    What term describes reduced…

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  4. 400

    What do biologists compare…

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  5. 500

    What field studies where…

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Making new species

  1. 100

    What evolutionary process begins when populations become geographically separated?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What reproductive barriers act before fertilization or mating occurs?

  3. 300

    What barriers act after…

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  4. 400

    What evolutionary process occurs…

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  5. 500

    What process produces many…

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Patterns of change

  1. 100

    What pattern occurs when related lineages from a common ancestor become increasingly different?

  2. 200

    What pattern produces similar traits independently in distantly related lineages under similar conditions?

  3. 300

    What process is reciprocal…

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  4. 400

    What process favors intermediate…

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  5. 500

    What process favors both…

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History of life

  1. 100

    On which continent did Homo sapiens emerge about 300,000 years ago according to current fossil and genetic evidence?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What are the layered rock-like mounds pictured, built by microbial mats and known from very ancient rocks?

  3. 300

    What event over 500…

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  4. 400

    What hypothesis explains mitochondria…

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  5. 500

    Which event about 252…

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