Adaptations, Natural Selection and Evolution 2022

Which word refers to the process by which populations change over time?

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Darwinism

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What is the process by which organisms that inherit advantageous traits tend to reproduce more successfully than other organisms do?

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Darwinism

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Within a species there are naturally occurring differences in their traits is known as?

• Evolution

• Adaptations

• Variations

• Mutations

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A type of variation that is a change in genetic material.

• Adaptation

• Mutation

• Alienation

• Acquired Characteristics

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occurs when all members of a species have died.

• extinction

• plague

• smallpox

• mutation

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An inherited trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment is known as?

• adaptation

• genetic variation

• natural selection

• mutation

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Which fossil in the diagram is the oldest?

• shell

• mollusk

• plant

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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Do organisms "decide" to evolve and change?

• Yes, they know they need to change to survive 
• No, they change because of natural selection

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Almost all adaptations started off as?

• selective breeding
• physiological
• structural
• mutation

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