Adaptations and Evolution

Birds are eating all the green beetles. Because the brown beetles are surviving they reproduce more and make more brown beetles. This is called ___________

• Artificial Selection

• The Theory on the Origin of Species

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

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When the industrial revolution started, the trees have been covered in soot from coal factories. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?

• White Moth

• Dark Moth

• Both are Equally Successful in this Environment

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If scientists find fossils of a type of mosquito on the bottom layer and find fossils of beetles towards the top layer, what can scientists infer?

• Mosquitos ate the beetles

• Mosquitos are older fossils than beetles

• Beetles are older fossils than mosquitos

• Both mosquitos and Beetles must have lived at the same time.

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Scientists believe horses evolved over a period of 50 million years. How did they change?

• They became much larger

• Their toes eventually were replaced by a hoof

• Their environment changed from a forest to a grassland environment

• all the other answers!

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The diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?

• Fossil A and C are the same age
  

• Fossil B is older than fossil C

• Fossils A is older than fossil B

• Fossil D is older than fossil C

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To adjust to a changing environment

• Mutation

• Adapt

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Which of the following is NOT an example of natural selection? 

• People selectively breeding hamsters.

• Insect populations developing resistance to certain pesticides.

• Bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.

• Male birds of certain species developing colorful feathers to attract female mates.

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Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring? 

• Evolution 

• Variation 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection 

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Which feature helps an animal hide from other animals?

• looking like a dangerous animal

• being the same color as the place it lives (camoflauge)

• having sharp claws or a strong shel

• having only a few young and caring for them

How do adaptations help animals?

• To escape animals

• to hunt for food

• to survive in their habitats

• All of these are correct

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