Natural Selection Exit Ticket

What do you call a characteristic that allows an organism to survive in an environment?

• variation

• adaptation

• selection

• overproduction

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Survival of the fittest or when favorable adaptations reproduce faster is called what?

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural selection

• Fossilization

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Which of the following is an example of a vestigial structure?

• the wings of a red-tailed hawk

• the hind limbs of a house cat

• the fins of sharks

• the tailbone of a human

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The idea that organisms better adapted to their environment will survive-

• natural selection

• mitosis

• heredity

• respiration

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Natural selection could also be called -

• fake news

• theory

• survival of the fittest

• heredity

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When a species produces more offspring than could possibly survive, this called

• competition

• overproduction

• variations

• selection

What process is being shown in this image?

• Variation

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

• Homeostasis

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"Organisms that are better adapted to the environment survive to pass traits to their offspring" is the definition of

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Selective Breeding

• Artificial Selection

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The long and sharp beak of a woodpecker is an example of:

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because they come from dominant alleles.

• Because they come from recessive alleles.

• Because the organism knew it needed that trait, survives, and passes it on.

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