Environment and Survival Quiz

What are traits that organisms have that you can observe?

• Color and size

• Weight and height

• Speed and strength

• Shape and texture

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What are fossils?

• Clues about life from the past preserved in rock

• Artificially created structures

• Living organisms in the present

• Newly discovered species

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What do adaptive traits do for organisms in their environment?

• Have no impact on survival

• Make it harder to survive

• Cause extinction

• Make it easier to meet their needs

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What can inspire engineers to create designs that solve problems?

• Non-adaptive traits

• Organisms' traits

• Population variations

• Environmental changes

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What can affect which organisms are likely to survive in their environment?

• Population variations

• Fossils

• Organisms' traits

• Environmental changes

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What are some ways environments can be changed?

• Sunlight, moonlight, starlight

• Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis

• Rain, snow, wind

• Drought, fire, human impact

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What happens to traits that were adaptive when the environment changes?

• They might become non-adaptive

• They stay the same

• They disappear

• They become more adaptive

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What does the term 'extinct' mean?

• Some kinds of plants and animals that once lived on Earth are no longer found anywhere

• Organisms are adapting rapidly

• New species are constantly evolving

• All organisms are thriving in their environment

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What is the study of systems helpful for?

• Ignoring survival needs

• Changing the environment

• Creating new organisms

• Figuring out how things in the natural world work

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What is biomimicry inspired by?

• Population variations

• Environmental changes

• Non-adaptive traits

• Organisms' traits