Darwin's Fancy with Finches (Sci Switch)

1. What is natural selection?

• A. a process that happens in the absence of environmental conditions
• B. a single process of adaptation within an individual
• C. the survival of the fittest
• D. an ability to predict the outcome of a defined species over time

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3. beak size: Galapagos finches as white hair: _______

• A. whales
• B. tigers
• C. giraffes
• D. polar bears

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2. What does Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, illustrate?

• A. the importance of variations in organisms
• B. the traits affect how likely an organism is to reproduce
• C. how species evolve by adapting to their environment
• D. all the above

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5. Based on the info in paragraph 5, which of the finches in the diagram above is most likely to have adapted to an area where the main food source is large, hard seeds?

• A. (4)
• B. (3)
• C. (2)
• D. (1)

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4. Based on the context, the term resistance in paragraph 6 means ______

• A. opposition
• B. approval
• C. variation
• D. individualized