Natural Selection - 8th Grade

Who was Charles Darwin?

• Studied the temperament of chimpanzees

• Discovered the structure of DNA

• Wrote the theory of evolution

• Believed in the theory of heliocentricity

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What did Darwin call the ability of an organism to survive?

• fitness

• overproduction

• variation

• adaptation

Darwin began to formulate his concept of evolution by natural selection after...

• experimentation with animals

• reading the writings of Mendel

• observations of many species plants and animals while aboard the H.M.S Beagle

• A long conversation with Captain Fitzroy

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True or False

Evolution by natural selection works best on a population with no variation.

• True

• False

Which color line represents survival of the fittest?

• Orange

• Grey

• Blue

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Which of the following animals is not yet extinct?

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Which of the following animals would struggle to adapt in a desert environment?

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Which of the following is a disadvantage of artificial selection?

• There is a possibility of genetic mutation

• Artificial selection can eliminate diseases

• Artificial selection can increase outputs of crops

• Humans can breed out undesirable traits

Which represents homologous structures?

• Left

• Right

Which of these is a population?

• Finches

• White-Tailed Deer

• Finches in the Galapagos

• Rhinoceroses