3/27 - 3/31 Bell Work - Natural Selection/Adaptations

Why is a spider spinning a web an innate behavior?

• It learns how to spin the web from its mother.
• It learns how to spin a web through insight learning.  
• It is born knowing how to spin a web.
• It learns how to spin a web through observational learning.

Behaviors that are passed on from parents to offspring without teaching or training are called what?

• innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

• acquired traits

• imprinted behaviors

Which of these is an example of a learned behavior?

• a parrot saying hello
• a robin singing on a spring morning
• a penguin building a nest of pebbles
• a weaver bird building a hanging nest

Behaviors that do not need to be taught.

• Innate Behaviors

• Learned Behaviors

• Trait

• Instinct

Look at the picture.
A dog that sits when told to.

• inherited
• learned

__________ is when an organism blends in with its environment.

• Mimicry

• Camouflage

• Adapting

• Learned behavior

What are the two types of behavioral adaptations?

• Learned and natural selection

• Instinctive and camouflage

• Camouflage and mimicry

• Instinctive and learned

Match the following definitions to the correct meaning

• RNA

• a molecule made of a nitrogen base, a sugar, and a phosphate group

• Mutation

• a characteristic of an organism

• Nucleotide

• a segment of DNA

• Trait

• ribonucleic acid, a chemical that carries the code for making proteins

• Gene

• a permanent change in the sequence of DNA, or the nucleotides, in a gene or a chromosome

Charles Darwin’s observation that finches of different species on the Galápagos Islands have many similar physical characteristics supports the hypothesis that these finches 
 

• have the ability to interbreed.
  have the ability to interbreed.
• acquired traits through use and disuse.
• all eat the same type of food.
• descended from a common ancestor.

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection