Natural Selection Review 2021

What is a group of individuals of the same species living in the same place?

• genetic variation

• adaptation

• evolution

• population

What are differences within a species that are inherited called?

• population

• genetic variation

• adaptation

• evolution

What is the process of how the frequency of traits in a population changes over time?

• evolution

• adaptation

• natural selection

• genetic variation

Cheetahs being born with long tails to help keep them stable during sharp turns is an example of...

• an adaptation

• fitness

• genetic variation

• a population

A population of moths has white and dark variations. The trees where they live start to turn dark from pollution. Birds eat more of the white moths. In 45 years, the population of moths is now mostly dark. This is an example of...

• natural selection

• adaptations

• limiting factors

• mutations

True or False: ability to find a mate is a limiting factor

• True

• False

Fitness is...

• how much muscle and organism has built up

• the ability of an organism to survive in its environment

• the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment

• how well an organism can blend into its environment

Organisms can decide to change their traits to fit their environment.

• Ture

• False

True or False: Individuals do not adapt. Populations adapt over time.

• True

• False

What factors must occur for evolution by natural solution to occur?

• more individuals born than can survive due to limiting factors

• genetic variation in a population

• different fitness among individuals in a population

• all of them