Natural Selection Pre Assessment

What would be something that would cause a population to be adaptive?

• a change in the climate/ weather

• predators

• low food supply

• high food supply

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Why did the newts become poisonous?

• they wanted to

• they were attacked by another poisonous animal

• snakes were introduced to their environment

• they needed to protect themselves from predators

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is an adaptive trait?

• a trait that makes it less likely to survive in an environment

• a trait that makes it more likely to survive in an environment

• a trait that will lead to extinction

• a trait that will help a population reproduce

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

What is an non-adaptive trait?

• a trait that makes it more likely to survive in an environment

• a trait that makes it less likely to survive in an environment

• a trait that could lead to extinction

• a trait that will help a population reproduce

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

What change in the environment caused the evolution?

• The tree bark became gray.

• The tree bark became black.

• The tree bark became black and gray.

• The tree bark became white.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which statement is correct about the evolution of guppies?

• Small spot size was the adaptive trait 40 years ago.

• Medium spot size was the non-adaptive trait last year.

• Guppies evolved from large to medium spot size over time.

• Guppies evolved from medium to large spot size over time.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

The process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations.

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Adaptive Trait

• Natural selection

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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