Quiz on Adaptations and Natural Selection

Adaptations can only arise if there is __________ within a species.

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All mutations and adaptations usually lead to what process?

• selective breeding

• behavioral

• natural selection

• genetic engineering

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Which of these words means the same thing as variety?

• Similarity

• Diversity

• Inherited

• Sameness

A woodpecker has a long, thin, pointed beak. How would this adaptation help it survive?

• It can swim fast.

• It can catch other animals.

• It can easily catch fish.

• It can easily pick bugs out of the bark in the trees.

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

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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Which of these is defined as the process of having the advantageous traits that helps an organism survive and reproduce?

• natural selection

• adaptation

• genetic engineering

• mutation

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Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• best adapted

• fastest

• most domesticated

• strongest

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The goal of every species on earth is to

• survive and reproduce

• divide and conquer

• survive and conquer

• reproduce and die

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In natural selection, _____ determine(s) what organisms survive.

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Most adaptations started off as

• selective breeding

• physiological

• structural

• mutations

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