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Natural selection and Adaptation
Natural selection and Adaptation
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Quiz on natural selection and adaptaions
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1
The process where organisms with favorable adaptations are most likely to survive is called __
change over time
Evolution
Speciation
natural selection
2
What is an inherited trait that increases an organisms chance of surviving and reproducing?
variation
Natural selection
adaptaion
evolution
3
Isolation occurs when a population becomes _____ by an event.
Divided
doubled
Diseased
Extinct
4
which is a cause for extinction?
introduction of a predator
rapid environmental changes
failure to adapt to the environment
variation in the population
5
The process of change over a period of time is called _____. Only the fittest will survive
selective breeding
Adaptation
natural selection
evolution
6
What did Darwin help to explain?
How old the Earth is
How birds fly
Genetics
How species change over time
7
An example of an adaptation is ____ choose all that apply
Giraffes long neck
Wolverines claws
birds different beaks
elephants long trunk
8
The story of peppered moths demonstrate an example of ___
moths' ability to change color overnight
an adaptation based on structural features
an adaptation based on behavioral features
how variance helps a population survive
9
The picture is an example of an animal doing what?
Variation
Hibernation
Mimicry
Camouflage
10
2. A process by which favorable traits tend to increase in frequency over time is called
variation
evolution
change over time
Natural selection
11
How does a lizard's
camouflage
help it survive?
better balance
harder to see by predators
sharpens hearing
clearer view of environment
12
____ occurs when the environment changes and the adaptations hurt the species
Isolation
extinction
evolution
natural selection
13
According to
Darwin
, why did the Galapagos finches have
different
beaks?
Difference in flight
Genetic mutation
Difference in defenses
Feeding habits and diet
14
1. Who is the english,naturalist who studied plants and animals and created an evolution theory
Albert Einstein
Mr. Clem
Gregory Mendel
Charles Darwin
15
Why did black moths increase in population during England's Industrial Revolution?
The environment changed in their favor.
They had better jobs with higher pay
They had a trait better suited to the environment
They had no predators
16
Which statement is
false
about natural selection ?
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
17
Which layer contains the YOUNGEST fossils?
bottom layer
no one knows?
Top layer
middle layer
18
Random _____ in genes produce variations of traits in a population.
combination
natural selection
mutations
order
19
What is the number one goal of an organism?
Learn about global warming
Help others be better
Become famous
Survive and reproduce
20
Choose the statement that is NOT part of Darwin's theory of evolution?
All organisms are linked to a common ancestor
extinction causes evolution
organisms change over time
evolution occurs over a long period of time
