Evolution Questions!

Adaptation in relation to animals is...

• How an animal adapts to survive in its environment

• What an animal eats

• How an animal breeds

• How animals manage to eat more than one type of food

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Evolution in relation to animals is...

• The different things animals eat

• How animals have evolved over time into different species

• How to classify different animals

• How animals have learnt to eat other animals

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Inheritance in relation to animals is...

• How animals behave in an environment.

• What animals do to survive in an environment.

• What animals like to eat.

• Certain things that animals get from their parents.

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Why is adaptation important for animals?

• So they can live in a range of different habitats

• So they can have more young

• So they don't get scared by humans

• so they can live in groups

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Which of these enables the calf in the picture to look different to its Mum?

• Adaptation

• Inheritance

• Evolution

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Which of these could a tiger cub inherit from its parents?

• Where it lives when it is older.

• How it hunts.

• What the best food is to eat.

• Colour of its fur.

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Look at these two dogs. Could they have had the same parents?

• Yes

• No

Which beneficial variation would be most helpful in a desert environment?

• white fur
• claws for burrowing
• grean and black camouflage
• flippers

What is it called when an organism is best adapted to its environment, it will survive and reproduce more successfully than other organisms less adapted?

• cloning
• evolution of all species
• natural selection
• selective breeding

What most likely caused the finches on the Galapagos Islands to have beaks that were differnt from the finches living on the South American mainland?

• They were different types of food available on the island.
• The finches on the islands had to drink salt water.
• There were different types of predators living on the island.
• The finches on the mainland built different types of nests.