Natural Selection

What is the change in distribution of traits from the population at time 1 to the population at time 2?

• Thin blubber increased.

• Thick blubber decreased.

• The distribution did not change.

• Thin blubber decreased and thick blubber increased.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What happened to beak length over generations from 1960 to 2010?

• The distribution of short beaks increased.

• The distribution of long beaks increased.

• The distribution of medium beaks increased.

• The distribution of medium beaks decreased.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which location has guppies with medium spot size as the adaptive trait?

• Population in Brazil

• Population in Venezuela

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What changed in the environment to cause evolution?

• The water temperature increased.

• The water temperature decreased.

• The water temperature did not change.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

An inheirted trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing in a particular environment. (a)  

• Variation

• Differentiation

• Adaptation

• Genetic Specialist

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The process by which organisms with variations that help them survive in their environment live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those that do not have the variations. (a)  

• Evolution

• Creationism

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

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Survival of the ​ (a)   means that individuals that are better adapted to their ​ (b)   survive and pass on their ​ (c)   more successfully.

• fittest

• environment

• traits

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which prediction supports the following statement? Red is the adaptive trait to survive predators.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which location had short giraffes as the

non-adaptive trait?

• Population in Niger

• Population in Somalia

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What change in the environment caused the evolution?

• The amount of large riverbed rocks increased.

• The amount of small riverbed rocks increased.

• The amount of riverbed rocks did not change.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4