SC.912.L.15.13 - Natural Selection

Traits that offer what are more likely to be passed to the offspring?

• An advantage
• A disadvantage
• Evolutions
• Natural Selections

When the members of two populations cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring.

• Reproductive Isolation
• Disruptive Isolation
• Directional Isolation
• Stabilizing Isolation

Which of the three graphs shows stabilizing selection?

• A
• B
• C

Characteristics that allow a population to become better suited to its environment

• accommodation
• adaptation
• variation
• selection

Natural selection can best be defined as the _____.

• survival of the biggest and strongest in a population
• survival and reproduction of those in the largest area
• elimination of the smallest organism by the biggest
• survival and reproduction of those that are best adapted

Two populations are separated by geographical barriers such as rivers or mountains

• Reproductive Isolation
• Geographic Isolation
• Behavioral Isolation
• Temporal Isolation

Individuals that survive long enough to reproduce have a high level of

• fitness
• adaptation
• hormones
• stamina

Why did the population of peppered moths in England change from the light variation to the dark variation after the Industrial Revolution? 

• The soot from industrial revolution caused the light peppered moth to fly away, and only the dark variation was left.
• The industrial revolution made the trees darker, which made white moths easier to catch by predators, so only the light moths were left.
• The industrial revolution made the trees darker, which made white moths easier to catch by predators, so only the dark moths were left.
• The soot from industrial revolution caused the light peppered moth to fly away, and only the light variation were left.

Which of the following is REQUIRED for the process of natural selection to occur?

• Members of the same species must compete with one another.
• Members of different species must compete with one another.
• There must be a sudden environmental change.
• Traits must be inherited from one generation to the next.

Some lizards have different size legs.  Lizards with longer legs are able to better access food.  Overtime Lizards with short legs became less common.
What is the adaptation?

• Lizards
• Long legs
• Leg size 
• Food