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Genetic Variation is important so that a population is able to adapt to a changing environment.
False
True
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2. A process by which favorable traits tend to increase in frequency over time is called
change over time
evolution
variation
Natural selection
3
According to
Darwin
, why did the Galapagos finches have
different
beaks?
Difference in flight
Genetic mutation
Difference in defenses
Feeding habits and diet
4
Why did black moths increase in population during England's Industrial Revolution?
They had no predators
The environment changed in their favor.
They had better jobs with higher pay
They had a trait better suited to the environment
5
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
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How does a lizard's
camouflage
help it survive?
better balance
harder to see by predators
clearer view of environment
sharpens hearing
7
Isolation occurs when a population becomes _____ by an event.
Diseased
Extinct
doubled
geographically separated
8
What is the number one goal of an organism?
Survive and reproduce
Learn about global warming
Help others be better
Become famous
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How does natural selection occur? (select all that apply)
Most offspring are produced than can survive
nature random selects who lives and who goes extinct
favorable adaptations are selected and increase over time
individuals in populations are not exactly alike
10
An example of an adaptation is ____
Wolverines claws
elephants long trunk
Giraffes long neck
birds different beaks
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What is an inherited trait that increases an organisms chance of surviving and reproducing?
Natural selection
adaptaion
evolution
variation
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The process of change over a period of time is called _____.
Adaptation
natural selection
selective breeding
evolution
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What did Darwin help to explain?
How old the Earth is
Genetics
How species change over time
How birds fly
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The process where organisms with favorable adaptations are most likely to survive is called __
Speciation
change over time
natural selection
Evolution
15
The story of peppered moths demonstrate an example of ___
moths' ability to change color overnight
how variance helps a population survive
an adaptation based on behavioral features
an adaptation based on structural features
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Can individuals evolve?
NO
YES
17
which is a cause for extinction? (choose all that apply)
failure to adapt to the environment
variation in the population
introduction of a predator
rapid environmental changes
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1. Who is the english,naturalist who studied plants and animals and created an evolution theory
Mr. Clem
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Gregory Mendel
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What can be passed on to offspring?
Genetic Traits
acquired traits like muscles acquired by daily lifting weights
Tattoos
Nothing
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____ occurs when the environment changes and the adaptations hurt the species
Isolation
extinction
natural selection
evolution
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Which is an example of evolution?
everybody in school doing yoga and becoming more flexible
you doing yoga and becoming more flexible
a brown fur mouse population living on a forest floor
one mouse changing it's coats color to hide from predators
