Natural selection quiz review

This makes an organism more suited to its environment

• species

• lifespan

• adaptation

• mutation

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

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted

• the fastest

• the strongest

• the most domesticated (tamed)

Which of the following describes what is meant by Natural Selection?

• An organism will survive no matter what its adaptations may be

• An organism with adaptations that do not allow it to reproduce as effectively as others will survive.

• An organism with adaptations that allow it to obtain resources and reproduce more effectively than others will survive.

• No organisms will survive.

Which best describes an adaptation?

• A trait that helps an organism to survive in its environment.
• A trait that the organism can change when he wants.
• A trait that does not help the organism to survive in its environment.
• The place where an organism lives.

What does the term variation mean?

• The same traits in a population.
• The different ways that traits are expressed in a population.
• The same ways traits are expressed in a population.
• The place where an animal lives.

Which of the following variations would help members of a rabbit population survive if the climate turned very hot?

• Thinner fur
• Ability to run faster
• Ability to jump higher
• Ability to eat more

In Survival of the Fittest Darwin believed

• The organism with adaptations that allow it to fit into its environment better is the one that will survive and reproduce.

• The organisms without the adaptations to fit into its environment is the one that will survive.

The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• genes.
• variations.
• traits.
• theories.

When an organism has a trait that allows it to blend in with its environment, we call that ____.

• mimicry
• camouflage
• lucky
• sonic hedgehog gene