What is natural selection?

Organisms better suited to their environment survive and reproduce more

How does antibiotic resistance show evolution in action?

Resistant bacteria survive and multiply

Evolution Quiz – How Much Do You Really Know?

This evolution quiz covers Darwin and Wallace, natural selection, fossils, common ancestry, adaptation, speciation, antibiotic resistance and human evolution. Ten questions test how much you really know about how life changes over time.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Theory
Who published On the Origin of Species in 1859?
Wallace
Who independently came up with natural selection?
Selection
What is natural selection?
Evidence
Which provides evidence for evolution?
Bacteria
How does antibiotic resistance show evolution in action?
Species
What is the formation of a new species called?
Link
Which fossil shows features of both dinosaurs and birds?
Whales
Whales evolved from ancestors that lived where?
Humans
Where did modern humans first evolve?
Variation
What is the original source of new genetic variation?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who published On the Origin of Species in 1859?
Answer: Charles Darwin
It explained evolution by natural selection.
Q2: Who independently came up with natural selection?
Answer: Alfred Russel Wallace
He worked in Southeast Asia.
Q3: What is natural selection?
Answer: Organisms better suited to their environment survive and reproduce more
Over generations, useful traits become common.
Q4: Which provides evidence for evolution?
Answer: Fossils, DNA and anatomy
Many lines of evidence agree.
Q5: How does antibiotic resistance show evolution in action?
Answer: Resistant bacteria survive and multiply
It happens within years.
Q6: What is the formation of a new species called?
Answer: Speciation
Isolation often drives it.
Q7: Which fossil shows features of both dinosaurs and birds?
Answer: Archaeopteryx
It was found in Germany in 1861.
Q8: Whales evolved from ancestors that lived where?
Answer: On land
Early whales like Pakicetus walked on four legs.
Q9: Where did modern humans first evolve?
Answer: Africa
Fossils over 300,000 years old were found in Morocco.
Q10: What is the original source of new genetic variation?
Answer: Mutations
Most mutations are neutral or harmful, but some help.

Evolution Quiz – How Life Changes

Evolution is the change in living things over many generations. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace proposed that natural selection drives this change: individuals with helpful traits survive and reproduce more, passing those traits to their offspring.

Evidence for evolution comes from fossils showing ancient forms of life, similarities in anatomy, DNA comparisons and direct observations of change, such as bacteria evolving resistance to antibiotics and birds' beaks changing with food supply.

Evolution explains the incredible diversity of life on Earth, from bacteria to blue whales. It also helps scientists fight diseases, breed crops and understand our own origins, which trace back to Africa.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz is for students learning about evolution.

Who proposed natural selection
What evidence supports evolution
How bacteria show evolution
What transitional fossils are
Where humans evolved

Did You Know?

Life on Earth began about 3.7 billion years ago.
Galápagos finches evolved different beaks.
Domestic dogs evolved from wolves.
Peppered moths changed color during industrial pollution.
All life shares a common ancestor.