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WorksheetsNatural Selection Vocab
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is natural selection?
Nature playing out randomly will determine which animal species live and which will die out.
Animals & plants selects what mutations are needed to adapt to their environment so that their species can survive.
When animals migrate to a new environment.
What is the definition for an organism?
A non-living thing
A living thing
An alien from outer space
A dog
What is the definition for variation?
A changes or differences among different species.
The things that are the same between different species.
Differences in the things people believe or enjoy.
Define the word environmental.
Having to do with the environment or nature.
Having to do with what people think about the environment.
Having to do with outer-space.
What is camouflage (in the context of nature)?
A natural pattern that makes things stand out from their environment.
A human-made pattern or design that helps people blend in with their environment?
A natural pattern that helps things blend in with their environment.
What does native mean (in the context of nature/evolution)
When something is originally from the area that they live in.
A person from a 1st nations group.
When something is living in a new place.
What is anatomy?
The study of the parts or structure of a body (plant or animal)
The study of the parts of the human body.
The study of health and nutrition.
What is an organ (in the context of natural selection)?
A part of a living organism that does a specific and important job for the body. (ie: heart, liver, lungs)
A large piano-like instrument which blasts air through pipes to create music.
The muscles of an animal or person.
What is an embryo?
An unborn or unhatched offspring of an animal.
The scientific term for a baby that has just been birthed or hatched.
The yolk of an egg.
Resistant means:
Something that is attracted to something else.
Something that is weak against something else.
Something that is tough or strong against something else.
