Grade 9 · Biology
This quiz helps revise “Evolution” in Biology for grade 9. It has 25 questions in five categories: Evidence, Darwin's Era, Evolutionary Forces, Selection & Adaptation, Speciation. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
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.
What are preserved remains or traces of organisms from past geological ages called?
Human, whale and bat forelimbs share the same basic bone plan despite different functions. What are these organs called?
Whale pelvic bones are…
In the gameWhat kind of evidence…
In the gameWhich field explains evolution…
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The portrait shows which English naturalist who published a landmark work on evolution in 1859?
Which ship, pictured, carried the future author of a famous evolutionary theory on his 1831–1836 voyage, during which he collected specimens?
The portrait shows which…
In the gameWhich 1859 book became…
In the gameWhat is human-directed breeding…
In the gameWhich process is the ultimate source of new alleles in a population?
What is the movement of alleles between populations through migrating individuals or gametes called?
What is the random…
In the gameWhat is the sharp…
In the gameWhat is the change…
In the gameWhich mechanism increases heritable traits that improve survival and reproductive success?
Webbed platypus feet help with swimming. What is such a heritable beneficial trait called?
Which evolutionary process favors…
In the gameWhat is the independent…
In the gameWhat term compares an…
In the gameWhich process splits an ancestral lineage into reproductively isolated descendant lineages?
Which process begins with geographic separation of populations and ends with reproductive isolation?
Which type of reproductive…
In the gameWhich type of reproductive…
In the gameWhat is the branching…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.
