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Natural Selection Vocab

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A process by which a population becomes better suited to its environment by increasing the frequencies of alleles that provide benefits to survival and reproduction.

a)

Biodiversity

b)

Mutation

c)

Adaptation

d)

Evolution

2.

Features that help identify something

a)

Fingerprints

b)

License

c)

Characteristic

d)

Scar

3.

Diversity is the quality or state of having many (a)   forms, types, ideas etc.

4.

All of the living and nonliving factors in an area.

a)

Genes

b)

Ecosystem

c)

Population

d)

Environment

5.

Any factor, whether abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms

a)

Environmental Pressure

b)

Environmental Factor

c)

Environmental Factory

d)

Environmental Abrasion

6.

Change in the frequencies of alleles in a population over time

a)

Evolution

b)

Reproduction

c)

Adaptation

d)

Reconciliation

7.

Who would win?

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

A species that has permanently disappeared from the Earth is...

a)

Endangered

b)

Extinct

c)

Abundant

d)

Surviving

9.

The reproductive process involving two parents whose genetic material is combined to produce a new organism different from themselves.

a)

Cloning

b)

Binary fission

c)

Respiration

d)

Variation

10.

A process by which organisms with favorable traits produce more successful offspring than organisms with less favorable traits, causing the favorable traits to become more common in the population.

a)

Artificial selection

b)

selective breeding

c)

natural selection

d)

inbreeding

11.

Information gained from the 5 senses.

a)

Intuition

b)

Hunch

c)

Record

d)

Observation

12.

A group of organisms with similar characteristics that are able to interbreed or exchange genetic material.

a)

Family

b)

Species

c)

Phylum

d)

Genus

13.

Unifying scientific explanation for a broad range of hypotheses and observations that has been supported by scientific experiments.

a)

Theory

b)

Hypothesis

c)

Suggestion

d)

Law

14.

one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.

a)

Mutation

b)

trait

c)

allele

d)

phenotype

15.

Why

a)

?

b)

??

c)

!?

d)

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