Evolution 1 Week 3/2-3/6

Gradualism means Natural Selection would normally happen over many generations and very

• slowly

• quickly

• in space

• beyond time

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Punctuated Equilibrium implies catastrophic events caused natural selection to speed up due to great environmental changes.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

According to natural selection, light colored tree trunks would favor

• light colored moths

• dark colored moths

• red colored moths

• red and light colored moths

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Genetic diversity in a species makes long term survival of some members

• impossible

• improvable

• more likely

• less likely

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A physical trait favored by an environmental change can be called an

• adaptation

• extinction

• possibility

• mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The special niche occupied by a particular species is called a

• extinct

• punctuated equilibrium

• habitat

• all of the above

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6

Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the

• Earth

• Fastest

• Fittest

• Biggest

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Two populations of the same species are separated by land barriers like rivers or mountains.

• geographical isolation

• temporal isolation

• adaptive ratiation

• behavioral isolaton

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Two populations of the same species do not have the same mating rituals or signals.

• geographical isolation

• temporal isolation

• adaptive ratiation

• behavioral isolaton

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

All the possible gene combinations in a population.

• allele

• gene pool

• genome

• mitosis

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4