Chapter 4 Life Science Part V

When enviroments change, some organisms can adapt to enable them to survive, while others die.

• True

• False

During a drought, birds with bigger beaks can crack and eat more seeds to enable them to survive.

• True

• False

Some organisms survive change by moving to a new location.

• True

• False

The higher you go up on a mountain the warmer the temperature is.

• True

• False

When enviroments change, organisms may not have the characteristics to survive in the new habitat which may cause that organsim to become _______________.

• Popular

• Inherited

• Extinct

• Camoflauged

As many as _____% of all species that have ever lived on Earth have gone extinct.

• 70

• 99

• 20

• 59

Recently, the rate of extinction has been decreasing.

• True

• False

Sometimes organisms thought to be extinct have later been found alive.

• True

• False

A few organisms have managed to survive enviromental change without going extinct. They are called ________.

• Immortals

• Mortals

• Living Organisms

• Living Fossils

Living things have many different _________________ that help them survive.

• populations

• communities

• breeds

• adaptations