Explore Adaptations and Natural Selection

Adaptation is

• the process that makes an organism look better

• the process in which weak organisms are killed off

• the process in which an organism becomes better adapted to its environment

• the process in which oxygen is transformed into glucose

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The purpose of gills on a fish is to

• Take in nitrogen from the water

• Help fish avoid predators

• Take in hydrogen from the water

• Take in oxygen from the water

The squirrel in the picture is using an adaptation called

• camouflage

• hibernation

• migration

• retention

An inherited trait that helps those organisms that have it to survive

• niche
• structure
• characteristic
• adaptation

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The seasonal movement of an organism from one place to another

• camouflage
• migration
• hibernation
• function

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

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

• genes.
• variations.
• traits.
• theories.

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Change over time describes.....

• Speciation 
• Selective Breeding 
• Evolution 
• Adaptation 

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This is an example of....

• Dieting 
• Evolution 
• Selective Breeding 
• Adaptation 

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