BHS Natural Selection

True or False:  Only traits that are controlled by genes can be acted on by natural selection.

• True
• False

The preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past are called...

• dinosaurs
• burrows
• predators
• fossils

 The gradual change in a species over time is called...

• variation
• mutation
• predator
• evolution

A group separated from the rest of the species is one of the main ways a __________ is formed.

• mutation
• migration
• competition
• new species

The theory of ___ - states evolution occurs steadily in tiny changes over long periods of time. 

• punctuated equilibria
• gradualism
• plate tectonics
• competition

_______________ - a species creating more offspring than can possibly survive.

• Evolution
• Natural selection
• Migration
• Overproduction

True or False: Through natural selection, harmful variations gradually accumulate in a species.

• True
• False

In natural selection, organisms that are best suited to their environment are most likely to...

• mutate
• punctuated equilibria
• reproduce and survive
• migrate and have variations

An ________ helps an organism survive and reproduce.

• adaptation
• overproduction
• evolution
• environmental change

__________ traits that are different in members of the same species.

• Evolutions
• Mutations
• Variations
• Gradualism