Reporting Category 3

What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive in its environment?

• adaptation
• variation
• homologous structure
• vestigial structure

• analogous structures
• homologous structures
• vestigial structures
• none of the above

What is the process of which humans breed organisms for certain traits?

• artificial selection
• descent without modification
• inheritance of acquired characteristics
• natural selection

Vertebrate embryos pass through similar stages of development is evidence for

• use and disuse
• homologous structures
• common ancestry
• acquired characteristics

Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce

• better traits
• stronger genes
• more offspring
• fewer mutations

All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a 

• group
• population
• variation
• fossil

Which of the following would represent a sudden environmental change?

• Wildfire
• Global Warming
• Competition for food
• Desert encroachment 

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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.