WorksheetsTheory of Evolution by Natural Selection
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 45mins
When every organism of a species has died.
Evolution
Natural Selection
Extinction
Selective Breeding
Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.
Evolution
Natural Selection
Extinction
Selective Breeding
Why are helpful 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.
The goal of every species on earth is...
to survive and reproduce
divide and conquer
survive and conquer
reproduce and die
Why is a spider spinning a web a behavioral adaptation?
It learns how to spin the web from its mother.
It learns how to spin a web through insight learning.
It is born knowing how to spin a web.
It learns how to spin a web through observational learning.
The ears of this fox are an example of...
A behavioral adaptation
Poor breeding
A structural adaptation
Plastic surgery gone horribly wrong
Charles Darwin’s observation that finches of different species on the Galápagos Islands have many similar physical characteristics supports the hypothesis that these finches
have the ability to interbreed.
acquired traits through use and disuse.
all eat the same type of food.
descended from a common ancestor.
Which is not a type of adaptation?
structural
predatory
functional
behavioral
Charles Darwin was
an English naturalist
a French botanist
a Spanish zoologist
an American anatomist
Natural selection can also be referred to as:
Survival of the weakest
Survival
Survival of the fittest
Selective breeding
The trees these moths used to live on were white, but have been covered in dust 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
Which moth will be more successful in this environment?
Dark moth
Light moth
Both will be equally successful
Neither will be successful
The purpose of selective breeding is to
Get bigger animals
get smaller animals
create animals with wanted traits
create animals with bad traits
When humans breed organisms together based on traits we like.
Evolution
Natural Selection
Extinction
Selective Breeding
