Evolution

What is evolution?

• The process in which species change over time

• A trait that helps an organism survive

• A group of organisms that are well adapted

• The study of animals

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What is natural selection?

• The process in which species change over time

• The process in which living things with adaptations survive and reproduce

• The process in which organisms with bad traits survive

• The process of creating clones

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What did Charles Darwin observe on the Galapagos Islands?

• The fossil record of the Galapagos Islands

• Differences in plant sizes

• Differences in finch beaks

• The rock layers of the Galapagos Islands

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What is an adaptation?

• The process in which living things change over time

• Differences between offspring

• A trait that is bad for an organism

• A trait that helps an organism survive

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What are variations?

• Differences between offspring

• Traits that help an organism survive

• Similarities between offspring

• When animals overproduce

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How are differences between offspring helpful for a species?

• Differences between offspring are not helpful

• They allow nature to select the best differences needed to survive

• Nature selects differences that are not helpful

• Offspring are not different from each other

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What does it mean when a species becomes extinct?

• There are only a few of that species left

• The species is protected from hunting

• There are none of the species left

• A species smells bad

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Which of the following is most likely to become extinct?

• A species that is protected from hunting

• A species that has plenty of food

• A species with many different places to live

• A species that is losing its home

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What can scientists learn from studying fossils?

• The history of life on earth

• How species have changed over time

• What organisms lived in the past

• All of these are true

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What does it mean when organisms share a common ancestor?

• They evolved from 1 species that lived in the past

• They are the same species

• The organisms have exactly the same traits

• The organisms are very different from one another

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