Evolution by Natural Selection

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

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To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.

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What is anything that helps an animal survive in its environment?

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Adaptation

Front

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

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increase in number.

Front

What happens when individuals with certain traits get more resources than others?

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Struggle for Survival.

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What is a slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species?

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Variations.

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What is the process by which organisms change over time through adaptations?

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Evolution.

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What term describes the process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring?

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Natural Selection.

Front

What is a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

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Adaptation.

Front

What is the term for the variety of different types of life found on Earth?

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Biodiversity.

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What is the term for the inherited characteristics that increase an organism's chance of survival?

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Adaptations.