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People & Natural Selection Quizizz

Authored by Jessica Martin

Biology

9th - 11th Grade

NGSS covered

Used 6+ times

People & Natural Selection Quizizz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

_________ wrote the Earth processes today are the same as in the past. He proposed that the Earth changed very slowly by small, gradual changes

Alfred Russel Wallace

Thomas Malthus

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Charles Lyell

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

_____ was a British economist who believed that human population growth would be limited by available resources and lead to competition

Alfred Russel Wallace

Thomas Malthus

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Charles Lyell

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The struggle for existence against other members of an organisms species is.... (caused by overproduction)

Competition

Natural Selection

gene flow

genetic drift

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Mutations are a change in what?

DNA
tRNA
genotype
phenotype

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

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