# Evolution and adaptation

> Grade 6: adaptation to habitats, fossils as evidence, offspring vary and look like parents, natural selection, Charles Darwin.

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- Subject: Science
- Level: Grade 6
- Quiz: 16
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## Questions

1. Which feature helps a camel survive in a hot, dry desert? (Fat stored in its hump / Thick layer of blubber / Webbed feet for swimming / White fur for hiding)
   Answer: Fat stored in its hump
2. Why do polar bears have thick fur and a layer of fat? (To climb trees easily / To stay cool in the heat / To stay warm in the cold / To swim faster in rivers)
   Answer: To stay warm in the cold
3. A cactus has spines and a thick stem that stores water, which helps it live in a desert.
   Answer: True
4. What are fossils? (Living plants in old forests / Remains or traces of living things from long ago / Rocks made by volcanoes only / Tools made by early people)
   Answer: Remains or traces of living things from long ago
5. Fossils are usually found in which type of rock? (Crystal rock / Igneous rock / Molten rock / Sedimentary rock)
   Answer: Sedimentary rock
6. What can fossils tell us about living things of the past?
   Answer: What they looked like and that they lived long ago (they show how life has changed)
7. All fossils come from animals that are still alive today.
   Answer: False
8. Puppies in one litter look similar but not identical. What is this difference called? (Adaptation / Extinction / Fossilisation / Variation)
   Answer: Variation
9. Why do offspring usually look like their parents? (They copy their parents' habits / They eat the same food / They inherit features from their parents / They live in the same place)
   Answer: They inherit features from their parents
10. What word means passing on features from parents to offspring?
   Answer: Inheritance (heredity)
11. In natural selection, which animals are more likely to survive and have young? (The oldest ones / The ones that are the biggest always / Those best suited to their environment / Those chosen by humans)
   Answer: Those best suited to their environment
12. Some moths are darker than others. On dark tree bark, which moths are more likely to survive? (Both survive equally whatever the colour / Dark moths, as birds find them harder to see / Neither, since moths cannot hide / Pale moths, as birds see them easily)
   Answer: Dark moths, as birds find them harder to see
13. Over many generations, what happens to helpful features in a species? (They become more common / They change in one lifetime / They disappear quickly / They stay rare forever)
   Answer: They become more common
14. Natural selection happens because individual animals decide to change their bodies.
   Answer: False
15. Which scientist is famous for his theory of evolution by natural selection? (Albert Einstein / Charles Darwin / Isaac Newton / Louis Pasteur)
   Answer: Charles Darwin
16. Darwin studied finches with different beak shapes on which islands?
   Answer: The Galápagos Islands