Evolution Adaptations

A trait or change in lifestyle that helps a plant or animal survive in its environment

• adaptation

• evolution

• homologous

• vestigial

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When HUMANS select or choose a plant or animal for breeding based on a desired trait

• natural selection

• artificial selection

Which of the following is a physical adaptation for the underlined animal?

• A snake unhinges its jaw to eat a rabbit it just caught.
• A hognose snake rolls over, slows its breathing, and hangs its tongue out to pretend to be dead.
• A herd of buffalo encircle their young to protect them from a pack of wolves.
• A dung beetle rolls a piece of dung across the desert.

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

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

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Adaptations can be...

• mutations

• Behaviors

• Both B and D

• Phyisical characteristics

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Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

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Genetic differences between organisms of the same species

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

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The struggle for existence against other members of an organisms species is

• Competition
• Natural Selection
• gene flow
• genetic drift

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Birds are eating all the green beetles. Because the brown beetles are surviving they reproduce more and make more brown beetles. This is called ___________

• Artificial Selection

• The Theory on the Origin of Species

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

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