Natural Selection and Evolution

This makes an organism more suited to its environment

• species

• lifespan

• adaptation

• mutation

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

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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These moths are all the same species. The differences between their wings is an example of ________________

• Natural Selection

• Variation

• Homeostasis

• Extinction

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According to natural selection, organisms more suited to their environment are better able to

• Sleep

• Survive

• Perish

• Migrate

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Mutations can be inherited or be

• Chosen by the individual organism

• Caused by environmental factors

• Refused at any time

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What most likely caused the finches on the Galapagos Islands to have beaks that were differnt from the finches living on the South American mainland?

• They were different types of food available on the island.
• The finches on the islands had to drink salt water.
• There were different types of predators living on the island.
• The finches on the mainland built different types of nests.

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Which beneficial variation would be most helpful in a desert environment?

• white fur
• claws for burrowing
• grean and black camouflage
• flippers

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What type of structures are these?

• homologous
• vestigial 
• analogous
• fossil

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Which of these best represents a time period in which an organism could evolve?

• 5 days
• 100 years
• 10,000 years
• 2 decades

The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment 

• diversity.
• evolution
• adaptation
•  fitness

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