Adaptation or Extinction

What does Mimicry mean?

• imitation

• camouflage

• hibernation

• a chemical defense

Match the following

• genes passed on from parent to child

• camouflage

• behavior that is not learned

• hibernation

• a visual disguise

• instinctive behavior

• when an animal sleeps through the winter to conserve resources

• inherited traits

• when an animal learns to do a trick

• learned behaviors

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Darker colored mice survive better in rocks that are white.

• True, their predators can see them so they are more likely to survive.

• False, their predators can see them so they are more likely to be eaten.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

When a plant or animal can adapt to their environment,

they are most likely to survive.

• True

• False

• It depends on the weather.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Older fossils are more likely found...

• on the surface.

• in the deepest layer of soil.

• in caves.

• in the ocean.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What gives petrified wood its different colors?

• the presence of silica.

• paint made from things in nature.

• material from volcanoes.

• different types of minerals.

How does fossils help us determine the history of an ecosystem?

• Fossils provide clues to the climate of an ecosystem.

• Fossils can not tell us much about an ecosystem.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

These teeth suggest this animal was a __________.

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

• foodivore

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

How did this deeply buried fossil become exposed at the Earth's surface?

• It crawled through the rock.

• Erosion uncovered it.

• Dynamite blasted the rock away.

• Rock never formed here.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

These teeth suggest this animal was a __________.

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

• foodivore

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2