Evolution and Natural Selection

Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Barkley

• Isaac Newton

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The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution

• Nucleotide 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

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To adjust to a changing environment

• Mutation

• Adapt

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Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  

• become extinct
  

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Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring? 

• Evolution 

• Variation 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection 

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When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption

• Extinction

• Fossilization

• Mutation

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The white feathers of a snowy owl allow it to blend in with its environment during the winter months (snow). This is an example of ________________

• Species

• Environmental Change

• Adaptation

• Variation

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Darwin referred to this as survival of the fittest. Over time, it results in changes in the inherited characteristics of a population because organisms with adaptations that make them fit for their environment will survive and reproduce better than those without favorable traits.

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Variation

• Survival of the Fittest

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Genetic differences between organisms of the same species

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Behavior

• Environment

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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.

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