Peppered Moth

What caused the soot to cover the trees in Great Britain from 1780 to 1830?

• burning coal

• setting fires

• black wind

• dead moths

Why did the population of moths change

• Predators were able to easily see their prey.
• People hunted lighter colored moths
• White moths were killed by the smoke from the factories
• Moths mood changed to sad, causing them to become dark

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The term that best describes why the moth population changed color over time

• adaptation
• natural selection
• mutation
• predator-prey

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In natural selection, the selective agent is the

• humans
• mutations
• breeders
• environment

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What was being built during the Industrial Revolution, and what happened to the surrounding trees?

• Factories and turned them black

• Factories and cut them down

• Factories and mined underneath the trees and the forest collapsed

• Factories saw how they were polluting the environment and planted more trees

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Why did dark moths have a survival advantage when they were near factories?

• They could hide in the birds shadow.

• They could push the white moths into the flames.

• They did not have a survival advantage.

• They blended in with the dark tree trunks.

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What happened to the color of moths over time?

• More black moths than white moths appeared
• More white moths than black moths appeared
• Grey moths developed
• The smoke stained the moths changing their color

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Dark colored moths on dark colored trees is _____

• an adaptation

• a finite resource

• natural selection

• selective breeding

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The peppered moth population turned mostly black because of

• Global warming

• Loss of trees in the environment

• Industrial revolution

• New tree species introduced in the area

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What was causing the different colors in the moths?

• the color was genetic and it was passed on.

• the forest painted them new colors

• factory ash caused the butterflies to change

• the birds ate all the moths to extinction

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