Animal adaptations

What is adaptation?

• A force that causes animals to change

• A body part or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment

• Change over time

• the process of killing animals that aren't strong enough

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What is an example of artificial selection?

• The extinction of the Dinosaurs

• The Galapagos finches that Darwin observed

• A flower with bigger petals attracts more bees than a flower with smaller petals

• Dogs that have been bred from wolves into different sizes and to do different jobs

The leaves of a plant growing towards the sunlight is an example of-

• Phototropism

• hydrotropism

• geotropism

• electrotropism

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An organism can experience a stimulus and react to it. What types of stimulus are there?

• Happy and sad

• Good and evil

• External and internal

• left and right

A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring is

• A troop

• A species

• A reproduction circle

• A happy family

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What adaptations do penguins have to live in their environment?

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True or False: Humans have created a lot of food that we eat from a process called artificial selection

• True

• False

Humans come in different shades of skin color, height, eye color, and hair texture. Difference in individuals of a population are called-

• Variation

• wild types

• environmental differences

• traits changes

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In order to adapt to their environment, animals change over time. This is called-

• extinction

• survival of the fittest

• dynamic change

• Evolution

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When an organism responds to a stimulus, there are 2 types of reactions that can occur. what are they? ( select the two answers that are correct.)

• fight or flight response: The signal travels quickly with chemical

• Hormone response. The signal travels slowly with chemical.

• Nerve response. the signal travels with electricity and moves quickly.

• Mental response. The signal travels with electricity and moves slowly.

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