Natural Selection Vocabulary
Authored by Angela Baker
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8th Grade
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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
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NGSS.MS-LS4-2
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The study of embryos and their development
Gradualism
Species
Embryology
Variation
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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
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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
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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
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NGSS.MS-LS4-2
NGSS.MS-LS4-3
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