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Evolution - Natural Selection

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
a)
Ancestor
b)
Adaptation
c)
Descendant
d)
Fossil
2.
A relative who lived in the past.
a)
Charles Darwin
b)
Speciation
c)
Ancestor
d)
Descendant
3.
A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals
a)
Generation Time
b)
Fossil Record
c)
Extinct
d)
Speciation
4.
Differences among individuals in the composition of their genes or other DNA segments.
a)
Natural Selection
b)
Derived traits
c)
Genetic Variation
d)
Adaptation
5.
Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest.
a)
Extinction
b)
Speciation
c)
Natural Selection
d)
Artificial Selection
6.
Formation of new species.
a)
Speciation
b)
Trait
c)
Fossil record
d)
Ancestor
7.
What characteristic did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?
a)
Their feathers 
b)
Genotypes 
c)
Their beaks
d)
Their body sizes
8.
How are camels especially suited to their environment? Choose best
a)
Their humps make them good pack animals for humans
b)
Their long eyelashes make them look pretty
c)
They can go long without water
d)
They get along well with other animals
9.
To adjust to a changing environment
a)
Mutation
b)
Adapt
10.
Charles Darwin came up with this theory 
a)
Natural Selection
b)
Mutation
11.
This is an example of....
a)
Evolution 
b)
Adaptation 
c)
Desert 
d)
Natural Selection 
12.

Between two same species is

a)

interspecific

b)

biotic factor

c)

intraspecific

d)

abiotic factor

13.

Environmental resistance ____________ growth of populations due to biotic and abiotic factors.

a)

limits

b)

increase

c)

promotes

d)

expand

14.

Which of the following are examples of behavioral adaptations?

a)

thorns on a rose bush

b)

different sizes of bird beaks

c)

bears hibernating during winter

d)

an albino crocodile in the wild

15.

Breeding dogs and cats are examples of

a)

natural selection

b)

evolution

c)

acquiring traits

d)

artificial selection

16.

The picture represents

a)

exponential growth

b)

logistic growth

c)

predatory-prey model

d)

biotic potential

17.

Predators, disease, competition, and lack of food are examples of

a)

biotic factors

b)

interspecies

c)

intraspecies

d)

intraspecies

18.

According to the principle of common descent, all species - living or extinct - are united by descent from ancient common ancestors, and exhibit _______________________.

a)

the exact same features.

b)

different traits due to acquired heritable traits from their parents.

c)

diversity with identical structures and functions.

d)

diversity due to natural selection and adaptation.

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