Natural selection

According to Natural Selection, light colored tree trunks would favor

• Light colored moths

• Dark colored moths

• Red colored moths

• Red and light colored moths

Which beak is best suited to crack open nuts?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which animal and feature did Darwin study on the Galapagos islands?

• Finches' wings

• Alligator's tail

• Finches' beak

• Penguin's teeth

Survival of the fittest and the theory of evolution is attributed to which scientist?

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Einstein

• Newton

Mutations are a change in what?

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• tRNA

• DNA

Evolution typically happens.....

• in a few weeks

• never

• over millions of years

• in 100 years

A human’s arms, a cat’s front leg, a dolphin’s front flipper, and a bat’s wing

• have bones that are alike

• used in the same way

• share many similarities with insect wings and jellyfish tentacles

• have nothing in common

Changes in inherited characteristics can cause a species to change into a new one. This change over time is called?

• Graduation

• Revolution

• Selective breeding

• Evolution

Gradualism means Natural Selection would normally happen over many generations and very ____________

• slowly

• in space

• quickly

• beyond time

The peppered moth’s color camouflaged it on the light colored tree bark. It’s color was an example of a(n)

• variation

• recessive trait

• dominant trait

• adaptation