Natural Selection
Not Natural Selection
Patterns/Rates of Evolution
Speciation & Unrelated Trivia
Just Unrelated Trivia
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What is an adaptation?
A trait that helps an organism survive or reproduce in their environment
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What mechanism leads to a population evolving due to random chance?
Genetic drift
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Which theory suggests that populations undergo long periods of stability interrupted by short, sudden periods of evolutionary change?
Punctuated equilibrium
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What is a species?
A group of organisms that can interbreed to produce viable and fertile offspring.
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Basketball was invented by a physical educator named James Naismith. The game was first played using peach baskets while he was teaching at Springfield College. What country was James Naismith from?
Canada
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Which type of selection is shown in this graph?
Stabilizing selection
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A fire burns through a forest and kills most of a population of squirrels. The surviving squirrels reproduce, and the new population looks very different. What is this an example of?
Bottleneck effect
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This pattern of evolution results in organisms with different ancestors becoming more alike as they adapt to similar environments.
Convergent evolution
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One species of bird only mates during the fall. Another species of bird in the same area only mates in the spring. What type of isolation most likely led to the speciation of these birds?
Temporal
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This movie about a nuclear physicist had an explosive night at the 2024 Oscars, winning 7 awards including Best Picture.
Oppenheimer
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What is the difference between Darwin's theory of natural selection and Lamarck's theory of acquired traits?
Darwin: individuals are born with traits, which may be an adaptation. Those traits will be more likely to be passed on.
Lamarck: individuals change their traits during their lifetime, and then pass the traits on.
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Due to a germline mutation, a child is born with a widow's peak in their hairline. The peak does not harm the child, but it also does not provide them any sort of advantage. What is the best way to classify this mutation?
Neutral mutation
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Homologous structures are a product of which pattern of evolution?
Divergent evolution
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After performing for over 21 months, in front of 10.1 million fans, and over $2.077 billion in revenue, Taylor Swift finished the Eras Tour with her 149th show on December 2024. In which city did she play this final show?
Vancouver
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In 2018, the Bank of Canada started issuing new $10 bills with the face of Viola Desmond, a civil rights activist. Which Canadian prime minister was on the previous version of the $10 bill?
John A. MacDonald
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Birds can have beaks which range in length from short to medium to long. Short and long beaks are adaptations, whereas medium beaks do not help the bird. Which type of selection is this?
Disruptive selection
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Describe a situation to Mr. Qi of evolution occurring due to gene flow.
Answers may vary
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What is a vestigial structure?
A structure that is no longer required by an organism, but may have served a function in an evolutionary ancestor.
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Which Taylor Swift album features the songs "Getaway Car", "Delicate", and "Look What You Made Me Do"?
Reputation
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India recently overtook China as the most populous country in the world, both having over 1 billion residents. The USA is the 3rd most populous country at 340 million people. Which country is 4th?
Indonesia (284 million)
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Male polar bears like to "spar" or fight with each other in order to compete for access to the female polar bear. What type of selection is this? (BE SPECIFIC)
Intersexual selection
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Describe to Mr. Qi the difference between the bottleneck effect and the founder effect.
Bottleneck: a random event (eg. natural disaster) kills most of a population. The population afterwards looks different.
Founder: a small group leaves a population and establishes a new one somewhere else. Over time, the new population looks different from the original.
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Cheetahs evolve to run faster to catch gazelles, while gazelles evolve to run faster to escape cheetahs.
Which pattern of evolution does this describe?
Co-evolution
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Taylor Swift's fiance, NFL superstar tight end Travis Kelce, had to swallow a bitter loss in the 2025 Super Bowl. However, given how many Super Bowl titles he has already during his time with the Kansas City Chiefs, he will probably be just fine. How many Super Bowls has Travis Kelce won?
3
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Mr. Qi's favourite hockey team is the Edmonton Oilers, who have 5 Stanley Cups to their name (5 more than the Vancouver Canucks). But the Oilers' trophy case is still almost 5 times smaller than that of the winningest team in NHL history. Which team has the most Stanley Cups of all time with 24?
Montreal Canadiens