5 Factors

5 Factors

Multiple Choice

What is natural selection?

• Your natural fate is decided from birth

• Nature actively chooses who surivives

• Those best suited to demands of environment surivie

• The weakest of a species survive

Multiple Choice

For Darwin, how have animals and plants survived?

• Through luck
• Through natural selection
• Through careful management
• Through choice

Multiple Choice

What is the title of Charles Darwin's famous book?

• The origin of species

• Origin of species

• On the origin of species

• Species. The origin

Multiple Choice

What animals did Charles Darwin study when at the Galapagos Islands?

• Giraffes
• Seagulls
• Seals
• Finches

Multiple Choice

Where did Charles Darwin travel to?

• Australia
• Barbados
• Galapagos 
• Trinidad

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on?

• Boaty McBoaty Face
• HMS Beagle
• HMS Britannia
• HMS Bulldog

Multiple Choice

Who created the theory of evolution?

• Charles Darwin
• Charles Derwin
• Charlie Darwin
• Chris Darwin

Multiple Choice

Charles Darwin’s observation that finches of different species on the Galápagos Islands have many similar physical characteristics supports the hypothesis that these finches 
 

• have the ability to interbreed.
  have the ability to interbreed.
• acquired traits through use and disuse.
• all eat the same type of food.
• descended from a common ancestor.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes the process of evolution?

• Populations can survive in different locations on earth

• Environmental conditions limit the number of species on Earth

• Populations grow when resources are abundant

• The traits of a species can change over time

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•Scenario 1: A garden. Two different types of flowers grow here, one is a red rose with thorny stems and one is a red rose with smooth stems. A rabbit moves into the garden and wants to eat flowers. Which flower will survive?

Multiple Choice

An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing.

• variation
• adaptation
• vestigial structure
• mutation

Multiple Choice

A slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species.

• variations
• adapatations
• homologous structures
• analogous structures

Multiple Choice

These cause variations.

• mutations

• adaptations

• a desire to change

• injuries

Multiple Choice

Competition becomes more important as the number of individuals ______ or the availability of resources _________.

• increases, decreases

• increases, increases

• decreases, increases

• decreases, decreases

Multiple Choice

An increase in which of the following factors is likely to contribute to competition between two members of the same species living in a certain habitat?

• Available food resources

• Population of the species

• Annual snowfall

• Overall size of the habitat

Multiple Choice

Hawks and brown bears live together in the same habitat. There will be competition between the hawks and the brown bears only if which of the following is true?

• Brown bears hibernate during the winter while hawks remain active.

• Pesticides in the fish population affect hawks’ eggs and decrease their population.

• Both brown bears and hawks feed on the same species of fish.

• Both Shanna and Savanna feed on the same species of snakes.

Multiple Choice

What factor would cause animals of the same species to begin competing with one another?

• increase in precipitation

• the presence of decomposers

• the introduction of a new food source

• limited supply of resources