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Natural Selection Vocabulary

Authored by Angela Baker

Science

8th Grade

NGSS covered

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Natural Selection Vocabulary
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Any variation that makes an organism better suited to its environment

Adaptation

Mutation

Evolution

Variation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The production of several species from one ancestral species

Extinction

Adaptive radiation

Natural selection

Species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The study of embryos and their development

Gradualism

Species

Embryology

Variation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When the last individual of a species dies

Variation

Mutation

Extinction

Species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Manipulations of genes either within a species or across species to create new products or applications

Genetic engineering

Natural selection

Variation

Evolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Hypothesis that describes evolution as a slow, ongoing process by which one species changes to a new species

Adaptation

Punctuated equilibrium

Gradualism

Mutation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Body parts that are similar in origin and structure

Vestigial

Homologous

Analogous

Embryology

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

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