Natural Selection Lesson

Multiple Choice

Who was famous for their work on natural selection?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

Open Ended

List an adaptation show in each of these anaimals.

Multiple Choice

What is an adaptation?

• A body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment.

• Humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits.

• Studied finches on the Galapagos Islands, and theorized that the 13 species had a common ancestor.

• Organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Multiple Choice

What is natural selection?

• A body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment.

• Humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits.

• Studied finches on the Galapagos Islands, and theorized that the 13 species had a common ancestor.

• Organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Multiple Choice

Who is Charles Darwin?

• A body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment.

• Humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits.

• Studied finches on the Galapagos Islands, and theorized that the 13 species had a common ancestor.

• Organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Multiple Choice

What is selective breeding?

• A body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment.

• Humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits.

• Studied finches on the Galapagos Islands, and theorized that the 13 species had a common ancestor.

• Organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Open Ended

Why do you think its the favorable traits that become more common?

Multiple Select

Based on the data, which traits are advantageous to the species?

• long tail

• short tail

• big ears

• small ears

• more sensitive noses

Labeling

Decide which number represents the reason and which number represents the adaptation.

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Adaptation

Reason

Labeling

Decide which number represents the reason and which number represents the adaptation.

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Adaptation

Reason

Labeling

Decide which number represents the reason and which number represents the adaptation.

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Adaptation

Reason

Multiple Choice

Behavioral changes of individuals of a species that allow for better survival. (Acquired traits)

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Behavior

• Environment

Multiple Choice

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

Multiple Choice

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because they come from dominant alleles.

• Because they come from recessive alleles.

• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

Multiple Choice

Do organisms "decide" to evolve and change?

• Yes, they know they need to change to survive 

• No, they change because of natural selection

Multiple Choice

Natural selection occurs during the lifetime of a single organism.

• True

• False