Natural Selection

Adaptations can be:

• camouflage

• ability to survive cold weather

• hunting skills

• all of the above

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A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:

• the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease

• both populations should stay the same

• both populations will increase

• the green population to decrease and the yellow to increaseThis is a wrong answer

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How do you "win" at natural selection?

• survive

• go extinct

• survive & reproduce

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

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

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When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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Change over time

• Natural Selection
• Selective Breeding
• Homeostasis
• Evolution

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Dogs such as Chihuahuas are examples of....

• Artificial Selection 
• Natural Selection 
• Mutations 

Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the

• Earth

• Fastest

• Fittest

• Biggest

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What is most likely to happen to moth populations in the picture shown?

• Light moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population increase

• Dark moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population increase

• Light moths--hunted easily, light moths--population increase

• Lights moths will change their color to match dark moths.

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Due to pollution, a pond becomes darker over time. Which trait variation became more common?

• light fish

• dark fish

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