Evolution and Natural Selection

Evolution and Natural Selection

By AJH Science Classes 2022

Multiple Choice

Who is Charles Darwin?

• starbucks owner
• a bird
• a christian
• a naturalist

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What gave Charles Darwin the idea of evolution?

• Traveling on the HMS Beagle

• By becoming a naturalist

• Writing a book

• Studying the finches in the Galapagos island

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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.

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According to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, individuals who survive are the ones best adapted for their environment. Their survival is due to the 

• possession of adaptations developed through use.
•  possession of inherited adaptations that maximize fitness or survival.

• lack of competition within the species.
• choices made by plant and animal breeders.

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What did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America?

• different species on different islands
• all species on one of the islands
• identical species on all the islands
• the same species as North America

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

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

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Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring? 

• Evolution 
• Variation 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection 

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Genetic differences between organisms of the same species

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

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What is another name for natural selection?

• survival of the smartest
• survival of the fastest
• survival of the biggest
• survival of the fittest

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What is a change in an organism that allows for it to survive in its environment?

• homologous
• vestigial
• variation
• adaptation

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What is this an example of?

• diversity of species
• variation
• vestigial structures
• DNA studies

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 
• dark

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The white feathers of a snowy owl allow it to blend in with its environment during the winter months (snow). This is an example of ________________

• Species
• Environmental Change
• Adaptation
• Variation

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Over time all animals (and plants) develop adaptations that help them ____________________.

• develop new adaptations

• thrive and survive

• change the way they interact with their environment

• change their behaviors

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Over many generations the features that help animals survive ____________________.

• are passed on

• disappear

• change because of combinations

• change through behavioral adaptation

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How do adaptations help animals?

• To hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

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action done on purpose to help with survival

- by choice

• structural adaptation

• behavioral

• physiological

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Adaptation that involves color, shape, or other physical characteristics

• structural adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

• physiological adaptation

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Adaptation that involves internal body systems

• structural adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

• functional adaptation