Natural Selection Unit Pre-Test

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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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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When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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Why do frogs and other organism reproduce so many eggs or offspring?

• so that their babies can have friends to play with
• the more offspring the more likely the offspring will survive
• the more offspring the less likely offspring will survive 
• the more offspring the less competition

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• genes.
• variations.
• traits.
• theories.

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Natural selection is where ___________ decides which traits should be passed on

• Nature

• A human

• Charles Darwin

• the strongest member of the population

The more genetic variation  a population has,
 the more likely it is that the population will

• go extinct
• migrate
• survive
• mutate

An organism's physical appearance

• phenotype
• recessive
• genotype
• dominant