Natural Selection and Evolution

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What is Global Warming?

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Increasing temperature in Earth's atmosphere

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What does it mean when an animal is endangered?

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Animals that is at risk of extinction.

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When is a species defined as endangered?

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When it suffers from damage to its habitat, disease or predation, and hazards to its continued life.

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What does the Endangered Species Act of 1973 make unlawful regarding registered endangered species?

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shoot, capture, trap

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

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Natural Selection

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Hawks eat snakes. Snakes evolved to have skin coloration that lets them blend into their environment. Hawks evolved to have excellent eyesight. What is this an example of?

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Coevolution

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Adaptations can be:

camouflage

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ability to survive cold weather

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hunting skills

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all of the above

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all of the above

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

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Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

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fitness

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ability to survive and reproduce in a specific environment

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The greenhouse gas having the greatest role in human-caused global warming is: methane, carbon dioxide, CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), ozone

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carbon dioxide

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