Unit 5- Evolution and Fossil Records

Why did Darwin's finches have different beak shapes and sizes?

• mating behaviors

• adapted to different environments

• their parents

• the size of the island they lived on

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How will natural selection most likely produce changes?

• the most attractive organisms will live and reproduce

• the organisms that reproduce the most will survive through generations

• the organisms that reproduce earlier to avoid the winter will live longer

• the organisms that reproduce during winter will live longest

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What was the name of the scientist who had the theory of evolution?

• Lamarck
• Einstein
• Washington
• Darwin

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Which is not an example of an adaptation?

• A bird's beak allows it to crack open hard nuts.
• A zebra's stripes allow it to confuse its predators.
• A frog's large hind legs allow it to jump from danger.
• A cat sleeps on the sofa to avoid the vacuum cleaner.

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat different types of food.
• To fly faster.
• To confuse scientists. 

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Evolution means...

• Change over time in a population.
• That everything is the same.
• That organisms never change.
• Negative traits are acquired in populations.

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What is it called when better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to their offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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Why did the population of peppered moths in England change from light to dark after the Industrial Revolution?

• Light moths were easy to see against sooty trees and were eaten
• Light moths were killed by soot
• The birds that ate the dark moths were killed by soot
• Dark moths were produced by industrial processes

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Where humans have bred organisms together based on traits we like.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction 
• Artificial Selection

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Which beak is probably best suited to crack open nuts?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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