Topic 8

What is an inherited behavior or physical change that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

• adaptation

• variation

• evolution

• species

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Which variation would be helpful to almost any creature, regardless of its environment?

• the ability to swim deeper

• patterns on its body that help it hide

• the ability to produce energy more efficiently

• bigger claws and teeth

Evidence supporting biological evolution is found in the fossil record and in ___.

• adaptations to changing environments

• similar anatomies and embryos

• offspring with various traits

• layers of sediment

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What causes variations in traits like hair color, eye color, and height?

• competition

• offspring

• alleles

• fitness

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What scientist wrote "The Origin of Species"?

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

• Mary Anning

• Charles Darwin

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Tonya watches a hummingbird hover around a petunia flower. He remembers that when two species interact with each other closely, such as hummingbirds and flowers do, they can affect one another’s evolution. Which of these is an example of coevolution?

• ticks draw blood from a deer and can travel from host to host

• female seahorses lay eggs and the male seahorses carry the eggs

• bumblebees eat the nectar from flowers and then spread the pollen

• mountain goats evolved hooves that spread apart and have pointed edges in front so they can climb and live on steep cliffs

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Which is an example of a trace fossil?

• megalodon tooth

• mosquito trapped in amber

• t-rex skull

• 1,000-year-old turtle droppings

What three factors affect the process of natural selection?

• variation, competition, and mutation

• competition, evolution, and overproduction

• overproduction, variation, and competition

• mutation, evolution, and extinction

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Which scientist reconstructed the bodies of fossilized animals?

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

• Mary Anning

• Charles Darwin

Gene flow can increase the genetic variation of a population.

• True

• False

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