Natural Selection Concepts

Natural Selection Concepts

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Flashcard

Science

6th - 8th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-LS4-4, MS-LS3-1, HS-LS4-2

+6

Standards-aligned

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1.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What is a specific characteristic of an individual organism?

Back

Trait

2.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What is a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment?

Back

Adaptive Trait

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

3.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What do we call any difference in traits between individual organisms?

Back

Variation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What are mutations?

Back

Changes to genes that can lead to changes to protein molecules which can result in changes to traits.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

5.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

How do environmental changes affect populations over generations?

Back

With each generation, individuals with traits better suited to the new environment are more likely to survive and pass on those traits.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

6.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What is natural selection?

Back

The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

7.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What is adaptation?

Back

A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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