Evolution

Traits that are successful for the environment will survive and get passed on to the next generation. What is this called?

• Natural Selection

• Breeding

• Darwin

• Evolution

Evolution is a gradual process. What does "Gradual" mean?

• Quick

• Slow

• Round

• Graded

Who figured out that Evolution happens by Natural Selection?

• Charles Darwin

• Rosalind Franklin

• Watson & Crick

• Robert Hooke

A mistake or change in the DNA is called a...

• Mutation

• Mutilation

• Fossil

• Species

Similarities in the Cat's leg, Dolphin's flipper, Bat's wing and our arms suggest...

• that we have a common ancestor millions of years ago.

• that all could fly at one time.

• they can't be related because bats can't swim.

• that cats love to swim.

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

• Their feathers 
• Genotypes 
• Their beaks
• Their body sizes