Chapter 1 Origins of Evolutionary Thought
1. What was the result of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
a. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and lost his job.
b. The state of Tennessee was forced to allow the teaching of evolution.
c. Evolution was disproved.
d. Scopes was found innocent.
(Answer a; page 14)
2. Today, federal courts uphold the idea that __________.
a. evolution should not be taught in public schools.
b. the Old Testament is the most accurate source of information about the Earth’s past.
c. evolution is the unifying principle of the life sciences.
d. none of these
(Answer c; page 14)
3. Science is a(n) , not a .
a. result, process
,b. process, method
c. process, result
d. observation, hypothesis
(Answer c; page 15)
4. Science is a perfect process, because data are always interpreted the same way.
a. True
b. False
(Answer b; page 15)
,5. Which of the following is an element of the scientific method?
a. experimentation
b. observation
c. hypothesis
d. all of these
(Answer d; page 15)
6. In science, a preliminary explanation is known as a(n) __________.
a. experiment
b. hypothesis
c. datum
d. paradigm
(Answer b; page 15)
7. Scientific hypotheses are __________.
a. derived from a non-empirical process.
b. rarely tested.
c. always assumed to be true.
d. falsifiable.
, (Answer d; page 16)
8. To say that a hypothesis is falsifiable is to say that it is __________.
a. testable
b. false
c. proven
d. simple
(Answer a; page 16)
1. What was the result of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
a. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and lost his job.
b. The state of Tennessee was forced to allow the teaching of evolution.
c. Evolution was disproved.
d. Scopes was found innocent.
(Answer a; page 14)
2. Today, federal courts uphold the idea that __________.
a. evolution should not be taught in public schools.
b. the Old Testament is the most accurate source of information about the Earth’s past.
c. evolution is the unifying principle of the life sciences.
d. none of these
(Answer c; page 14)
3. Science is a(n) , not a .
a. result, process
,b. process, method
c. process, result
d. observation, hypothesis
(Answer c; page 15)
4. Science is a perfect process, because data are always interpreted the same way.
a. True
b. False
(Answer b; page 15)
,5. Which of the following is an element of the scientific method?
a. experimentation
b. observation
c. hypothesis
d. all of these
(Answer d; page 15)
6. In science, a preliminary explanation is known as a(n) __________.
a. experiment
b. hypothesis
c. datum
d. paradigm
(Answer b; page 15)
7. Scientific hypotheses are __________.
a. derived from a non-empirical process.
b. rarely tested.
c. always assumed to be true.
d. falsifiable.
, (Answer d; page 16)
8. To say that a hypothesis is falsifiable is to say that it is __________.
a. testable
b. false
c. proven
d. simple
(Answer a; page 16)
