Natural Selection Worksheet

Charles Dawin & Natural Selection

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements about Darwin are true EXCEPT for

• Darwin was highly curious about the natural world

• Darwin collected many specimens over his lifetime, including rocks, shells, beetles, plants, and more.

• Darwin wrote many letters to fellow scientists, family members, and peers over his lifetime.

• Darwin loved learning about blood, surgeries, and medicine which is why he almost became a medical doctor.

Multiple Choice

What was the name of Darwin's boat?

• Indefatiguable

• Bugle

• Sloop John B

• Beagle

Multiple Choice

Example: How does the lizard benefit from being blended into its sandy habitat?

• It makes the lizard harder to see.

• It makes the lizard harder to hear.

• It makes the lizard harder to touch.

• It makes the lizard harder to smell.

Multiple Choice

Organisms with differences/variations that are helpful will ______________________

• live longer and reproduce

• become extinct
• show no change

Multiple Choice

Darwin said that within a species there will be _________________________

• nothing different
• variation/differences