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WorksheetsAdaptations
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a trait that helps an organism to survive and reproduce called?
a)
Variation
b)
Mom's home cookin"
c)
Adaptation
d)
I don't know
2.
What are any differences between individuals of the same species called?
a)
7th graders in South's halls
b)
Teachers vs. students
c)
Variations
d)
Conflict
3.
What are changes over a long, long time called?
a)
Mrs. Summers' aging
b)
Mr. Vickers' walking the halls
c)
Evolution
d)
Man walking on the moon
4.
What is the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce called?
a)
Obeying your parents
b)
Staying in school
c)
Natural selection
d)
being very very lucky
5.
What is a change in a gene or chromosome called?
a)
a hole in my favorite jeans
b)
Adaptation
c)
Mutation
d)
DNA Replication
6.
What are the conditions in which something lives called?
a)
Home
b)
Environment
c)
school
d)
Biome
7.
What are all biotic and abiotic things that interact in an area?
a)
Ecosystem
b)
Environment
c)
Plants
d)
Population
8.
What is a group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
a)
Evolution
b)
Mutation
c)
Biome
d)
Abiotic factors
9.
All the living things in an environment
a)
Biotic factors
b)
Traits
c)
Animals
d)
Natural Selection
10.
All the nonliving things in an environment
a)
Ecosystem
b)
Dead Animals
c)
Genes
d)
Abiotic factors
11.
What are all the members of one species in a particular area
a)
Population
b)
Group
c)
Mutation
d)
Ecosystem
12.
Are passed down to the next generation in genes
a)
Traits
b)
Looks
c)
Abiotic factors
d)
Variation
13.
Known as adaptations, allow a species to survive and reproduce
a)
Population
b)
Better Genes
c)
Favorable Traits
d)
Ecosystem
14.
Are passed down to future generations more often
a)
Favorable Adaptations
b)
Evolution
c)
Mutations
d)
Abilities
15.
What can lead to the change in a species
a)
Bacteria
b)
Natural selection
c)
Population
d)
Traits
16.
In the mouse lab why did the white allele decrease quicker on the brown forest floor than the brown allele on the white sand?
a)
White allele was dominant
b)
White mice are better
c)
Brown mice are quicker
d)
Brown allele was dominant
17.
In the Mouse Lab which trait adapted better to the white sand environment?
a)
Fast runners
b)
White fur
c)
Brown fur
d)
Orange fur
18.
In the Toothpick Fish Lab which gene color disappeared faster after the pollution killed all the algae?
a)
Orange
b)
Red
c)
Yellow
d)
Green
19.
Traits are passed to the next generation in
a)
Jeans
b)
Cells
c)
Genes
d)
Food
20.
Mutations are
a)
Designed
b)
Planned
c)
Random
d)
Awkward
21.
Mutations can be
a)
Helpful, harmful, or neutral
b)
Always harmful
c)
Never helpful
d)
Caught
22.
Animals adaptions can be divided into what two categories?
a)
Mental + Emotional
b)
Supernatural + helpful
c)
Physical + Behavioral
d)
Summers + Stewart
23.
In our sentence example, changes "c" to "h" is a ________ mutation
a)
Point
b)
Frame Shift
c)
Insertion
d)
Hard
24.
Reversing a section of the gene in the sentance example "the fat tar eww eht eta tac." Is a _________ mutation
a)
Point
b)
Frame Shift
c)
Hard
d)
Inversion
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