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How can plate tectonics contribute to evolution?

• Separating plates can divide groups of a population.

• Radition from plate tectonics can cause genetic change.

• Volcanic eruptions can cause species to become extinct.

• The movement of plates forces some animals underground.  

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which is a change to DNA that forms new alleles?

• selective breeding

• evolution

• natural selection

• a mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Which of the following means "change over time"

• natural selection

• speciation

• evolution

• isolation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Genetic differences between organisms of the same species

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Behavior

• Environment

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Select the Evidence for Evolution

• Comparative Anatomy

• Natural Selection

• DNA Comparison

• Species Distribution

• Fossil Record

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Select the Causes for Evolution

• Migrations

• Mutations

• DNA Comparison

• Genetic Drift

• Natural Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Effects of genetic drift are strongest in ________ populations

• small

• medium

• large

• doesn't matter

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

Who composed and published the 1st periodic table?

• Ancient Greeks

• Bohr

• Thomson

• Mendeleev

A horizontal row of elements in the periodic table

• family

• group

• period

• table