Natural Selection What you Know!

A group of organisms with similar DNA that can mate with one another and produce fertile offspring are called?

• Species

• Fossils

• Chromosomes

The traces or remains of a once-living organism are called?

• Fossils

• Quartz

• Species

A timeline of life provided by trace remains of once living organisms is called a?

• Ancestor

• Fossil Record

• Adaptation

A very distant relative is considered a?

• Offspring

• Parent

• Ancestor

A species that has died out completely is considered? Example is the T-rex.

• Extinct

• Exercised

• Excellent

The process by which a species changes over a long period of time is called?

• Extinction

• Evolution

• Stagnation

A permanent change in DNA that can cause a new trait to emerge is called a?

• Mutation

• Chromosome

• Evolution

Any physical or behavioral trait that helps an organism to survive is called a?

• Water

• Habitat

• Adaptation

When a new river or moutain range forms, causing organisms to develop so many new traits that they become a new species. This is an example of what?

• Mutation

• Speciation

• Variation

Individuals that are better adapted to their environment will survive and reproduce more successfully than others who are not adapted. Identify this process.

• Variation

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection