Adaptation.Inherited Traits

How do adaptations help animals?

• to hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

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An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage
• Habitat

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

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

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 
• dark

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Adaptations can be...

• mutations

• Behaviors

• Both B and D

• Phyisical characteristics

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Adapatations lead to...

• Unique organisms

• Evolution

• Mutations

• Stronger Organsisms

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

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

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Which of the following is a factor in natural selection?

• Individuals of species compete with one another to survive.
• All species are genetically diverse.
• Individuals better able to adapt to changes leave more offspring.
• All are correct 

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Which of the following statements gives the most likely explanation for the presence of two very similar species of squirrels living on opposite sides of the Grand Canyon?

• One squirrel traveled across the canyon and started a new population on the other side.
• One squirrel traveled across the canyon and interbred with a different population on the other side.
• Members of one single squirrel species were geographically separated by the formation of the canyon.
• Members of two different squirrel species migrated from two different places to opposite sides of the canyon. 

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The Asian shore crab invaded parts of the eastern coast of the United States about 15 years ago. The Asian shore crab preys on blue mussels. In the time since the Asian shore crab arrived, the average shell thickness of the blue mussel population has increased. Which of the following is the most likely reason that this increase in shell thickness has occurred? 

• Blue mussels with thick shells attract more crabs that mussels without thick shells.
• Blue mussels with thick shells grow in larger colonies than mussels without thick shells.
• Blue mussels with thick shells catch more food per day than mussels without thick shells.
• Blue mussels with thick shells survive and reproduce more successfully than mussels without thick shells.

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