Common Assessment Review

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

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

When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

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.

Natural selection is when ____________ decides who survives and who doesn't

• nature
• humans
• animals
• years

Which of the following would NOT be an adaptation?

• Long, strong running legs
• Claws with a powerful grip
• camouflage
• A defective heart valve

Why did the population of peppered moths in England change from light to dark after the Industrial Revolution?

• Light moths were easy to see against sooty trees and were eaten
• Light moths were killed by soot
• The birds that ate the dark moths were killed by soot
• Dark moths were produced by industrial processes

Coloring or another physical characteristic that help an organism blend in with its environment

• mimicry
• camouflage
• hibernation
• migration

Why do some animals hibernate?

• The cold weather makes them sleepy.
• Their food supply is smaller in the winter.
• They have no one to play with.