Natural Selection Vocabulary

What idea made Charles Darwin famous ?

• Evolution
• Animals
• Natural Selection
• Medicine

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Where was Charles Darwin when he noticed the differences between different species of finches and turtles?

• The Galapagos Islands

• The Philippines

• The Azores

• The Bahamas

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The name for the idea that organisms that are more fit for their environment create more offspring. AKA Survival of the fittest

• Artificial Selection

• Creationism

• Natural Selection

• Dependent Selection

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An adaptive trait depends on the (fill in the blank)

• environment

• species

• natural selection

• predation

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the process by which an organism becomes better suited to its environment, or the features of an organism that make it well suited for its environment

• natural selection/ natural selections

• evolution/ evolutions

• adaptation/ adaptations

• differentiation/ differences

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a specific characteristic of an individual organism

• variation

• distribution

• trait

• mutation

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Match the following

• The variation of life forms present in different ecosystems.

• Species

• Process where traits and organisms that are best adapted to the environment survive and reproduce.

• Adaptation

• Organisms that can reproduce, have similar characteristics, and have a common gene pool.

• Natural Selection

• A variation in a plant or animal that increases it chance of survival in its environment.

• Diversity

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Match the following

• Natural Selection

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• Adaptation

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• Species

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• Diversity

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Process by which humans select plants and animals for breeding based on desired traits.

What is the definition of competition?

• Inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

• Natural process by which something takes place.

• Process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• The struggle among living things to get the necessary amount of food, water, and living space.

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