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