Evolution Review

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 organisms 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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What characteristic did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?

• Their feathers were odd shapes

• Genotypes

• Their beaks were shaped for the food they ate

• Their body sizes were all the exact same

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Another word for adapt is ____________.

• change
• create

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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

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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