Natural Selection - Peppered Moth

According to the Peppered Moth passage, what happens when an species cannot adapt to changes in their environment?

• They move to another environment.

• They risk dying out.

• Nothing happens.

• They wait for the environment to change again.

What does the author mainly describe in the passge?

• How natural selection changed the population of Peppered Moth.

• How the Industrial Revolution improved the lives of workers.

• How Charles Darwin devised his Theory of Natural Selection.

• How humans influence species through Artificial Selection.

What was the Peppered Moth passage mostly about?

• Charles Darwin

• Industrial Revolution

• Natural Selection

• Global Warming

Choose the answer that best completes the following sentence: __________ of the smoke given off by the coal burned in the factories, the nearby trees became blackened by soot.

• On the other hand...

• Primarily...

• As an illustration...

• As a result...

Read the following sentences: "In the English countryside near industrialized areas, the trees began to blacken with soot because of all the snoke in the air from the factories. This made the light gray peppered moth much more vulnerable. Predators would see them on the trees more clearly and easily hunt them down." What does this mean for the gray peppered moths?

• Quick to change

• Open to attack

• Easily defended

• In a strong position