PREP FOR BIO QUIZ - CHARLES DARWIN & THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes Darwin's Study of the Galápagos Islands' tortoises?

• saddle-backed tortoises have a high shell edge, allowing them to stretch their long necks

• domed tortoises have long necks and legs and live in areas with high vegetation

• saddle-backed tortoises have a low shell edge, allowing them to stretch their short necks

• domed tortoises have long necks and legs and live in areas with low vegetation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes the difference in physical traits of an individual from other individuals in the group to which it belongs.

• variation

• adaptation

• artificial selection

• heritability

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes a feature that allows an organism to better survive in its environment.

• variation

• adaptation

• artificial selection

• heritability

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes the process by which humans change a species by breeding it for certain traits.

• variation

• adaptation

• artificial selection

• heritability

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes the ability of a trait to be passed down from one generation to the next.

• variation

• adaptation

• artificial selection

• heritability

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes a mechanism by which individuals have inherited beneficial adaptations produce more offspring on average than others do in nature.

• natural selection

• population

• variation

• overproduction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes more than one individual of a species that live in an area.

• natural selection

• population

• variation

• overproduction

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes the heritable differences, or variations, that exist in a population are the basis for natural selection.

• natural selection

• population

• variation

• overproduction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes having many offspring raises the chance that some will survive.

• natural selection

• population

• variation

• overproduction

According to your notes, what answer choice best describes structures that perform a similar function (e.g., flight) but are not similar in origin.

• fitness

• biogeography

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

• vestigial structures