Science 8: Evolution

The space, conditions and all the living and non-living things around an organism is its _________________.

• home
• environment
• neighborhood
• ecosystem

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An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism is a ______________________.

• prey
• producer
• predator
• decomposer

An animal that is hunted as food

• prey
• predator
• decomposer
• producer

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An inherited trait that helps those organisms that have it to survive

• niche
• structure
• characteristic
• adaptation

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A natural process in which new organisms are created and the species continues

• population
• niche
• reproduction
• behavior

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

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When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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The theory of evolution by natural selection means that what is changing over time?

• The inherited traits of a population.
• The acquired traits of a population.
• Hair color and eye color
• Attractive features.

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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.

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