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The process where organisms with favorable adaptations are most likely to survive is called __
Evolution
change over time
Speciation
natural selection
2
The story of peppered moths demonstrate an example of ___
how variance helps a population survive
moths' ability to change color overnight
an adaptation based on structural features
an adaptation based on behavioral features
3
Random _____ in genes produce variations of traits in a population.
order
natural selection
mutations
combination
4
What is an inherited trait that increases an organisms chance of surviving and reproducing?
variation
Natural selection
evolution
adaptaion
5
According to
Darwin
, why did the Galapagos finches have
different
beaks?
Feeding habits and diet
Difference in flight
Genetic mutation
Difference in defenses
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How does natural selection occur?
favorable adaptations are selected and increase over time
Most offspring are produced than can survive
nature random selects who lives and who goes extinct
individuals in populations are not exactly alike
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What is the number one goal of an organism?
Help others be better
Survive and reproduce
Learn about global warming
Become famous
8
Why did black moths increase in population during England's Industrial Revolution?
They had a trait better suited to the environment
They had better jobs with higher pay
They had no predators
The environment changed in their favor.
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Choose the statement that is NOT part of Darwin's theory of evolution?
organisms change over time
All organisms are linked to a common ancestor
extinction causes evolution
evolution occurs over a long period of time
10
What did Darwin help to explain?
Genetics
How birds fly
How old the Earth is
How species change over time
11
Isolation occurs when a population becomes _____ by an event.
Extinct
Diseased
doubled
Divided
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____ occurs when the environment changes and the adaptations hurt the species
evolution
natural selection
extinction
Isolation
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An example of an adaptation is ____
Wolverines claws
elephants long trunk
Giraffes long neck
birds different beaks
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How does a lizard's
camouflage
help it survive?
sharpens hearing
clearer view of environment
better balance
harder to see by predators
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The process of change over a period of time is called _____.
natural selection
evolution
Adaptation
selective breeding
16
1. Who is the english,naturalist who studied plants and animals and created an evolution theory
Gregory Mendel
Charles Darwin
Mr. Clem
Albert Einstein
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2. A process by which favorable traits tend to increase in frequency over time is called
variation
Natural selection
evolution
change over time
18
Which layer contains the YOUNGEST fossils?
Top layer
no one knows?
middle layer
bottom layer
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which is a cause for extinction?
variation in the population
introduction of a predator
rapid environmental changes
failure to adapt to the environment
