Natural Selection Quiz

How do you "win" at natural selection?

• survive

• go extinct

• survive & reproduce

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

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

The trees these moths used to live on were white, but have been covered in soot from coal factories. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?

• Dark moth
• Light moth
• Both will be equally successful
• Neither will be successful

Why is the mouse population changing over time?

• The light mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark mice
• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because the dark mice taste better
• The hawks eat more light mice than dark mice because they can see the light mice more easily
• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily

Which of the following explains adaptation.

• An individual organism changes to meet its needs in the environment. These changes pass down to their offspring.
• The species as a whole changes their characteristics.
• Beneficial traits allow organism to survive and pass on those traits
• New characteristics arise in a species as needed.  If these traits are helpful, they are passed down.

According to natural selection, light colored tree trunks would favor

• light colored moths

• red colored moths

• dark colored moths

• red and light colored moths