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🦎 Evolution & Inheritance – Year 6
Science · Year 6 (KS2) — inheritance, variation, adaptation and how Darwin's ideas explain the evolution of living things
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What is a fossil?
Remains of a living thing preserved in rock
A rock shaped like an animal by the wind
A type of crystal that grows in caves
A bone from an animal that died last year
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Puppies from the same litter have different fur colours and markings. What do scientists call these differences?
Evolution
Variation
Adaptation
Extinction
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Mary Anning became famous for finding fossils on the beaches of which English town?
Whitby
Dover
Brighton
Lyme Regis
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Why does a child look similar to, but not exactly like, either of their parents?
They inherit everything from their mother
They inherit characteristics from both parents
They slowly grow to look like their parents
They copy their parents' habits
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Which of these is an inherited characteristic?
A scar on the knee
Dyed blue hair
Natural eye colour
Being able to swim
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Which feature helps a cactus survive in a hot, dry desert?
Large, thin leaves to catch rain
A thick stem that stores water
Soft, juicy leaves for animals to eat
Bright flowers that last all year
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Darwin saw that finches on different Galápagos islands had different beaks. What best explains this?
Each beak suited the food on its island
Beaks wore down from pecking rocks
The birds grew new beaks each year
Older finches always had bigger beaks
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In natural selection, which individuals are most likely to survive and pass their characteristics to their offspring?
The biggest and strongest ones
The oldest ones in the group
Those best adapted to their environment
Those that try hardest to change
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In the 1800s, soot from factories darkened tree bark. Why did dark peppered moths become more common?
Soot dyed the pale moths dark
Birds spotted and ate fewer dark moths
The moths chose to change colour
Dark moths could fly away faster
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Why is the scientist Alfred Russel Wallace remembered alongside Charles Darwin?
He discovered the Galápagos Islands
He worked out natural selection separately
He was the captain of HMS Beagle
He found the first dinosaur fossil
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