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Unit 6: Natural Selection

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

a)

Adaptive Trait

b)

Variation

c)

Species

d)

Population

2.

a related organism from a previous generation

a)

Ancestor

b)

Generation

c)

Fossil

d)

Species

3.

a way of hiding by looking the same as the background

a)

Camoflauge

b)

Adaptive Trait

c)

Gene

d)

Mutation

4.

an event or process that leads to a result or change

a)

Cause

b)

Effect

c)

Climate Change

d)

Prediction

5.

a long piece of DNA that contains many genes

a)

Chromosome

b)

Organism

c)

DNA

d)

Gene

6.

changes in climate over a long period of time that can be caused by natural events or human activities

a)

Climate Change

b)

Adaptation

c)

Natural Selection

d)

Extinction

7.

the number of individuals with each trait in a population

a)

Distribution

b)

Population

c)

Feature

d)

Inherit

8.

a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of

a)

DNA

b)

Trait

c)

Feature

d)

Organism

9.

a result or change that happens because of an event or process

a)

Effect

b)

Cause

c)

Histogram

d)

Prediction

10.

everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

a)

Environment

b)

Organism

c)

Population

d)

Human Activities

11.

having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth

a)

Extinct

b)

Fossil

c)

Ancestor

d)

Adaptation

12.

a characteristic that all members of a species have

a)

Feature

b)

Gene

c)

Camoflauge

d)

Offspring

13.

evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints

a)

Fossil

b)

Trait

c)

Variation

d)

Prediction

14.

an instruction for making a protein molecule

a)

Gene

b)

DNA

c)

Trait

d)

Variation

15.

a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule

a)

Gene Version (allele)

b)

Histogram

c)

Mutation

d)

Nymph

16.

a group of individuals born and living at about the same time

a)

Generation

b)

Population

c)

Distribution

d)

Species

17.

a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group

a)

Histogram

b)

Prediction

c)

Variation

d)

Generation

18.

things people do that affect the Earth system

a)

Human Activities

b)

Climage Change

c)

Mass Extinction

d)

Natural Selection

19.

to receive genes from a parent

a)

Inherit

b)

Mutation

c)

Generation

d)

Offspring

20.

when a huge number of species on Earth die out completely around the same time

a)

Mass Extinction

b)

Fossil

c)

Nymph

d)

Prey

21.

a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait

a)

Mutation

b)

Adaptive Trait

c)

Gene Version (allele)

d)

Feature

22.

the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Mutation

c)

Survive

d)

Inherit

23.

a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

a)

Non-adaptive Trait

b)

Fossil

c)

Extinct

d)

Predator

24.

a young insect that looks somewhat different from the adult

a)

Nymph

b)

Offspring

c)

Organism

d)

Generation

25.

an organism produced as a result of reproduction

a)

Offspring

b)

Generation

c)

Predator

d)

Prey

26.

living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria

a)

Organisms

b)

Predators

c)

Prey

d)

Nymph

27.

a group of the same type of organism living in the same area

a)

Population

b)

Environment

c)

Generation

d)

Species

28.

an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food

a)

Predator

b)

Species

c)

Prey

d)

Fossil

29.

an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know

a)

Prediction

b)

Cause

c)

Effect

d)

Feature

30.

an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food

a)

Prey

b)

Predator

c)

Species

d)

Offspring

31.

a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms

a)

Protein Molecule

b)

DNA

c)

Gene

d)

Chromosome

32.

something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving

a)

Selection Pressure

b)

Natural Selection

c)

Adaptive Trait

d)

Mutation

33.

the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring

a)

Sexual Reproduction

b)

Ancestor

c)

Extinct

d)

Distribution

34.

a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group

a)

Species

b)

Population

c)

Organism

d)

Environment

35.

to stay alive

a)

Survive

b)

Adaptive Trait

c)

Mass Extinction

d)

Variation

36.

a specific characteristic of an individual organism

a)

Trait

b)

Camoflauge

c)

Selection Pressure

d)

Ancestor

37.

any difference in traits between individual organisms

a)

Variation

b)

Fossil

c)

DNA

d)

Sexual Reproduction