Natural Selection Goldfish Lab with Graphing

A population is defined as a number of individuals of a species living within the boundaries of a defined area. Are the brown and yellow fish of the same species?

• Yes

• no

• How would I know?

• Fish are fish.

The VARIATIONS in traits among these fish are...

• their color and speed

• their voices and career goals

• their favorite My Little Ponies

• the air they breath and land on which they walk

Natural Selection can act on existing traits.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Why would it?

In this Data Chart are two variables, what are they?

• Brown and Yellow

• Fish and Numbers

• Generations and Amount of Fish

• 20 and 38

Which variable is the INDEPENDENT variable, that is MANIPULATED by the person conducting the experiment?

• Color of Fish

• Taste of Fish

• Size of Graph

• Generation Number

Which of the variables in DEPENDENT or RESPONDING to the other variable?

• Number of surviving fish

• What the fish ate for breakfast

• Generation Number

• How should I know?

Onto which axis would you place the INDEPENDENT variable?

• X-Axis

• Y-Axis

Onto which axis would you place the DEPENDENT variable?

• X-Axis

• Y-AXIS

This type of graph is a...

• Pie Chart

• Line Graph

• Bar Graph

• This is not a graph