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Are You Smarter than

an 8th

Grader?Level Easy Medium Difficult Challenge

4th Grade

5th Grade

6th Grade

7th Grade

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4th Grade Easy

What do tadpoles turn into?

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4th Grade Easy AnswerFrogs

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5th Grade Easy

Who first published a theory aboutevolution?

A) Darwin

B) Smith

C) Beasley

D) Johnson

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5th Grade Easy AnswerWho first published a theory

about evolution?

A) Darwin

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6th Grade Easy

What are warm blooded animalscalled?

A) amphibians

B) reptiles

C) mammals

D) fish

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6th Grade Easy AnswerWhat are warm blooded animals

called?

C) mammals

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7th Grade Easy

What are cold blooded animalscalled?

A) mammals

B) bacteria

C) protists

D) reptiles

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7th Grade Easy AnswerWhat are cold blooded animalscalled?

D) reptiles

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8th Grade Easy

In what type of rock are fossilstypically found?

A) metamorphic

B) igneous

C) sedimentary

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8th Grade Easy AnswerIn what type of rock are fossils

typically found?

A) metamorphic

B) igneous

C) sedimentary

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4th Grade Medium

What was the name of the ship hesailed on?

A) H.M.S. Beagle

B) L.T.D. Summit

C) H.S.C. Felix

D) I.T.E. Melrose

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4th Grade Medium AnswerWhat was the name of the ship hesailed on?

A) H.M.S. Beagle

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5th Grade Medium

Which of the following had thesmallest braincase?

A) Australopithicans

B) Homo sapiens

C) Neanderthals

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5th Grade Medium AnswerWhich of the following had the

smallest braincase?

A) Australopithicans

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6th Grade Medium

What is the name of Darwinsoriginal book on evolution?

A) Survival of the Fittest

B) Origin of Species

C) Mutations on the Brain

D) Adam and Eve?

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6th Medium AnswerWhat is the name of Darwins

original book on evolution?

A) Survival of the Fittest

B) Origin of Species

C) Mutations on the Brain

D) Adam and Eve?

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7th Grade Medium

What is the name of the type ofscientists who look for and

examine bones?

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7th Grade Medium AnswerWhat is the name of the type of

scientists who look for and

examine bones?

archaeologists

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8th Grade Medium

What observation did Darwin makeabout finches on the different

islands of the Galapogos?

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8th Grade Medium Answer

What observation did Darwin

make about finches on the

different islands of theGalapogos?

Their beaks were differentdepending on what island they

lived on.

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4th grade difficult

True or False: If a person carries adominant trait, they will show this

trait.

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4th Grade Difficult Answer

True or False: If a person carries

a dominant trait, they will show

this trait.True

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5th Grade Difficult

When this occurs, DNA is altered.

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5th Grade Difficult AnswerMutation

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6th Grade Difficult

The bones of the first humanancestors were found on this

continent.

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6th Grade Difficult AnswerThe bones of the first human

ancestors came were found on

this continent.

Africa

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7th Grade Difficult

Scientists can determine the age offossils by measuring the amount of

carbon isotopes in the bones.

What is this method is called?

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7th Grade Difficult AnswerScientists can determine the age

of fossils by measuring the

amount of carbon isotopes inthe bones. What is this method

is called?

Radio carbon dating

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8th Grade Difficult

What is it called when one group orspecies has the traits to survive

and another does not have the

traits to survive?

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8th Grade Difficult AnswerWhat is it called when one group

or species has the traits to

survive and another does nothave the traits to survive?

Survival of the fittest orNatural Selection

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4th Grade Challenge

On what continent were the bones ofthe earliest human ancestors

found?

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4th Grade Challenge AnswerOn what continent were the bones

of the earliest human ancestors

found?

Africa

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5th Grade Challenge Question

All of the genes in a population makeup this.

A) Gene selection

B) Gene differentiation

C) Gene pool

D) Gene variation

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5th Grade Challenge AnswerAll of the genes in a populationmake up this.

C) Gene pool

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6th Grade Challenge Question

Why is a staph infection so bad?

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6th Grade Challenge Answer

Why is a staph infection so bad?

The bacteria has evolved animmunity to antibiotics and

cannot be treated with typical

medications.

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7th Grade Challenge Question

What was the first living organism onearth?

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7th Grade Challenge Answer

What was the first living

organism on earth?

Bacteria

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8th Grade Challenge Question

Why have sponges (one of thesimplest and oldest living

organisms) stayed around for over

a billion years while dinosaurs and

other animals have evolved and

then become extinct?

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8th Grade Challenge Answer

Sponges are much simpler

organisms than dinosaurs and

other animals. They competefor less food and have fewer

predators, therefore they

developed and continue tothrive when larger, more

complex animals die off.

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The Grand Finale

Give a basic timeline of evolution

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