Unit 3: Test Review (Selection & Adaptation)

Drawn observed several different types of finches.  Why are there so many different types?

• Finches live in different places, but eat the same food.
• Finches live in the same place, but eat different types of food.
• Finches live in different habitats and eat different types of food.
• Finches are found all over the world.

Organisms with the most beneficial traits will survive.  This is commonly known as

• theory of evolution.
• variations.
• survival of the fittest.
• ecosystems.

This scientist developed the theory of evolution as he studied the finches.

• Charles Darwin
• Isaac Newton
• Albert Einstein
• Marie Curie

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.

Changes in a species over generations, due to changes in the environment

• Distribution

• Mutation

• Adaptation

• Resistance

A random and permanent change to a gene

• Protein

• Gene

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

What was the name of Darwin's boat?

• Indefatiguable

• Bugle

• Sloop John B

• Beagle

The Galapagos Islands are off the coast of ________________.

• North America

• South America

• Central America

• Antarctica

What country was Darwin born in?

• Europe

• England

• Scotland

• Ireland

What was the name of the book Darwin published?

• How it is we evolved.

• What is evolution?

• The Origin of Species.

• The Starting Point of All Life.