Adaptations & Genetic Variation

What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an organism survive.

• The food that an animal eats.

• How energy moves in a food web.

• How vegetables evolve throughout time.

How do adaptations help animals?

• to hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

The ears of this fox are an example of...

• A behavioral adaptation
• Poor breeding
• A physical adaptation
• Plastic surgery gone horribly wrong

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A giraffe's long neck - used to reach leaves high in trees - is an example of a 

• instinct
• learned behavior
• behavioral adaptation
• physical adaptation

Animals that have something they DO to live (hibernate, migrate, etc.) are exhibiting ____ adaptations.

• behavioral
• structural
• physiological
• assistive

Selective breeding is when ____.

• animals and plants change because of their environment

• humans choose the desired traits and breed plants and animals

• animals fight each other to survive

• when humans go to the pet store

____ is where better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to their offspring.

• evolution
• natural selection
• extinction
• artificial selection

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Biodiversity refers to ___.

• extinct species
• the variety of species on Earth
• nonrenewable resources
• the rate of species decline

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Most adaptations that help an organism survive are passed on from parent to offspring as ____.

• behavioral adaptations

• inherited traits

• genetic variation

• none of the above

Most adaptations that help an organism survive are passed on from parent to child as ____.

• behavioral adaptations
• inherited traits
• genetic variation
• none of the above