Natural Selection and Evolution Practice Test

According to natural selection, light colored tree trunks would favor

• light colored moths

• dark colored moths

• red colored moths

• red and light colored moths

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Body parts of organisms that are the same in structure and position but different in function.

• embryos
• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• vestigial structures

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Body parts that have lost their original function.

• embryos
• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• vestigial structures

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Organisms with these structures are believed to be closely related.

• analogous structures
• homologous structures 
• mutated DNA
• gills

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When an organism of a species is born with a variation in a trait that gives it an advantage in its environment, we call that trait an adaptation.

• true
• false

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When an organism of a species has an adaptation, it will compete for resources better, survive longer and pass that adaptation on to it's offspring. This process is called

• evolution by natural selection
• artificial selection
• inbreeding
• outbreeding

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The English naturalist that developed the theory of how evolution works.

• Charles Darwin
• Charles M. Schulz
• Charles Dickens
• Charles Norris

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Genetic differences between organisms of the same species that will give the organisms different traits like beak shape or height:

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Behavior

• Environment

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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What is this an example of?

• diversity of species
• variation
• vestigial structures
• DNA studies

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The fossil record help scientists

• better understand the kinds of organisms that lived in the past

• better understand how the environment has changed over time

• better understand how organisms have evolved over time

• all of the above

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