Inherited Traits and Adaptations

Good sense of smell

• Physical Inherited

• Physical Acquired

• Behavioral Inherited

• Behavioral Acquired

Butterfly Migration

• Physical Inherited

• Physical Acquired

• Behavioral Inherited

• Behavioral Acquired

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Nest Building

• Physical Inherited

• Physical Acquired

• Behavioral Inherited

• Behavioral Acquired

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Adaptations (choose two):

• Help organisms survive and reproduce

• Can be acquired (learned)

• Can be physical or behavioral

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Most adaptations that help an organism survive are passed on from parent to child as ___traits?

• adaptable

• physical

• more

• inherited

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What word means to change physical features or behaviors of a species in response to changes in the environment?

• Adapt

• naturalist

• Organism

• Species

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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

These moths are all the same species. The differences between their wings is an example of ________________

• Natural Selection

• Variation

• Homeostasis

• Extinction

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To adjust to a changing environment

• Mutation

• Adapt

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• genes.

• variations.

• traits.

• theories.

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