STAAR EOC Evolution

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  

• become extinct
  

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is another name for natural selection?

• survival of the smartest

• survival of the fastest

• survival of the biggest

• survival of the fittest

He believed that traits acquired during an organism’s lifetime could be passed onto offspring

• Linnaeus

• Lamarck

• Darwin

• Aristotle

To adjust to a changing environment

• Mutation

• Adapt

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 

• dark

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which of the following characteristics determines the life cycle of a star?

• Luminosity

• Temperature

• Color

• Mass

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Which of the following stars are near the end of their life cycle?

• Main sequence

• White dwarfs

• Giants

• Supergiants

Answer explanation

White dwarfs are stars that have exhausted all of their nuclear fuel.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Which process describes the change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations?

• Mutation

• Genetic Drift

• Evolution

• Speciation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is the primary mechanism by which evolution occurs according to Darwin?

• Genetic Drift

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

• Gene Flow

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