WRS Patterns of Evolution

Which of the following is not a selection pressure?

• Competition for Offspring

• Competition for Mates

• Competition for food

• Predators

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When selection occurs for one extreme trait.

• Directional Selection

• Disruptive Selection

• Stabilizing Selection

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

Type of selection that favors average traits.

• Directional Selection

• Disruptive Selection

• Stabilizing Selection

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

Selection that favors extreme opposite traits.

• Directional Selection

• Disruptive Selection

• Stabilizing Selection

There has been a massive volcanic eruption on an island. All of the plant and animal species have died out.

• Allopatric Speciation

• Extinction

• Gradualism

• Punctuated Equillibrium

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

• The process by which an ancestral species gives rise to new species that are adapted to different environmental conditions and are less alike.

• Divergent Evolution

• Co-Evolution

• Convergent Evolution

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Adaptive radiation is a rapid increase in the number of species from a single common ancestor.

• Adaptive Ratiation

• Allopatric Speciation

• Convergent Evolution

• Gradualism

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Occurs when different organisms that live in similar environments become more alike in appearance and behavior because the environment selects similar adaptations in unrelated species.

• Divergent Evolution

• Adaptive Radiation

• Convergent Evolution

• Disruptive Selection

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

• When two species evolve together and there is a mutual evolutionary influence between both species.

• Allopatric Speciation

• Co-evolution

• Convergent Evolution

• Divergent Evolution

Evolution that is slow and steady with little changes over a long period of time.

• Gradualism

• Punctuated Equilibrium

• Allopatric Speciation

• Divergent Evolution