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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

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A change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment

• Adaptation

• Trait

• Variation

• Evolution

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Is a Behavior and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment.

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Insight learning

• Cooperative behavior

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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring? 

• Evolution 
• Variation 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection 

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Imagine a population of frogs that live in the forest. The frogs have a green coloring on top that helps them blend into the forest so they are not noticed by predators.

Imagine that half of this population stayed in the forest and the other half of the population moved to the hills above the forest, which are drier, with some brown grass and brown soil.

Which population of frogs is likely to have more changes after many generations?

• Descendant Species 1: The frogs in the brown hills.

• Descendant Species 2: The frogs in the green forest.

• Neither.

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A brown rabbit is easily hunted and killed in an arctic ecosystem. Which would be expected to appear most often in future generations born in the same ecosystem?

• grey rabbits

• white rabbits

• brown rabbits

• an even mix of grey, white, and brown rabbits

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Darwin observed many birds that had many different beak shapes and sizes. There were few beaks that were similar because of…

• competition for the same type of food

• competition for a specific concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere

• the presence of an excessive number of autotrophs

• the presence of a disease that attacks birds with similar beak

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Birds are the biggest predator in this environment. The black moths had a mutation that made many of them white. What will happen to this species?

• Most of the black moths will survive and the white ones will be eaten

• Most of the white moths will survive and the black ones will be eaten

• The moths will survive equally

• The moths will both equally be eaten by birds

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The theory of evolution by natural selection means that what is changing over time?

• The inherited traits of a population.
• The acquired traits of a population.
• Hair color and eye color
• Attractive features.

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