Ms. B INTRO TO BIO EVOLUTION REVIEW

A change in a trait or characteristic that increases an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce.

• extinction
• natural selection
• adaptation
• choice

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The theory that organisms best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
"Survival of the fittest."

• Natural selection
• Adaptation
• Extinction
• Fossil

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WHY is this variation is best for survival?

• longer claws for fighting
• longer legs for running faster
• bigger ears for better hearing
• fur color that blends in to it's environment

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How will this mice population most likely change in the future?

• The white mice will go extinct.
• The grey mice will go extinct.
• All of the mice will grow longer fur.
• All of the mice will grow longer claws.

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On a farm, Marcia observes that individuals of a certain goat species have slightly different sizes and colors. What characteristic of populations is Marcia observing?

• adaption

• evolution

• selection

• variation

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If scientists were to compare the fossil of a fern that lived millions of years ago with other fern fossils that were formed later, what would they most likely find?

• that plants had bones millions of years ago

• that plants change over time

• that ferns stopped evolving 25 million years ago

• that only animals evolve

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Which of these answer BEST describes a fossil?

• fossils are remains or traces of once-living organisms found in layers of rock or ice, or in amber.

• organism from which other organisms are descended.

• body of an organism that died recently but has not decomposed

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The diagram below shows a portion of the fossil record in sedimentary rock. Different rock layers and fossils are clearly visible.

• Layer B contains the second-oldest fossils.

• Layer A contains the most recently formed fossils.

• The fossils in layer B are older than those in layer D.

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Gradual change of a species over time

• Heredity

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Scientific Theory

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Millions of fossils that scientists have collected

• scientific theory

• fossil record

• vestigial structure

• natural selection

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