Chapter 15

It took millions of years for giraffes to develop long necks. Slow evolution is called:

• Punctuated equilibrium

• Survival of the fittest

• Gradualism

• Selective Breeding

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____ is when members of a species that are best suited for their environment survive and reproduce at a higher rate than other members of the species

• natural selection
• artificial selection
• speciation
• adaptation

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Horse breeding for specific desired traits is an example of which type of evolutionary evidence?

• Artificial selection
• Embryology
• Fossils
• Biochemical molecules

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According to the theory of natural selection, some individuals more likely than others to survive and reproduce because they:

• pass on to their offspring their newly acquired traits.
• are better adapted to their environment than others and will pass on those adaptations to future offspring.
• do not pass on newly acquired traits.
• produce fewer offspring than others in the same environment.

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When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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What was the name of the ship Darwin traveled the world on?

• HMS Beagle
• SS Beagle
• HMS Bugle
• SS Bugle

What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

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Natural selection

• process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest
• Humans select which animals live and die
• both 
• IDK

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speciation

• Formation of new species
• idk
• Formation of old species
• none of the above

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What is gradual change in a species over time

• evolution

• natural selection

• diversity

• extinct

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