Darwin and Natural Selection

What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on?

• Boaty McBoaty Face
• HMS Beagle
• HMS Britannia
• HMS Bulldog

Where did Charles Darwin travel to?

• Australia
• Barbados
• Galapagos 
• Trinidad

What does evolution mean?

• To change something
• To change and adapt over time
• To lose some original features
• To improve ssomething over time

How did Darwin think life started?

• We evolved from apes
• We evolved from fish
• We evolved from each other
• We evolved from a simple cell

For Darwin, how have animals and plants survived?

• Through luck
• Through natural selection
• Through careful management
• Through choice

What is natural selection?

• Your natural fate is decided from birth
• Nature actively chooses who surivives
• Those best suited to demands of environment surivie
• The weakest of a species surivie

Which of the following ideas is supported by Darwin’s observation of local variation among tortoises in the Galápagos Islands? 

• artificial selection
• adaptation
• acquired characteristics
• tendency towards perfection

Lamarck’s ideas about evolution include the concept that differences among the traits of organisms arise as a result of

• continual increases in population size.
• the actions of organisms as they use or fail to use body structures.
• an unchanging local environment.
• the natural variations already present within the population of organisms.

According to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, individuals who survive are the ones best adapted for their environment. Their survival is due to the 

• possession of adaptations developed through use.
•  possession of inherited adaptations that maximize fitness.
• lack of competition within the species.
• choices made by plant and animal breeders.

Charles Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment 

• diversity.
• evolution
• adaptation. 
•  fitness.