Ecosystems and Evolution

Who is the scientist who had the idea of evolution by natural selection?

• Pierce
• Darwin
• Kettlewell
• Aristotle

All living and nonliving things that surround and affect the organism is its

• ecosystem
• environment
• home
• climate

A population is

• A group of organisms of the same species in an ecosystem.
• Different species that share an ecosystem.
• A place where an organism lives.
• large

Conservation means

• gradual change and buildup of organisms
• protecting ecosystems and the organisms living in them 
• a gas turns to a liquid
• reusing

Only one population lives in a single habitat.

• True
• False

The process by which populations slowly change over time is called__________

• selective breeding
• adaptation
• sepeciation
• evolution

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Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce:

• Fewer mutations
• Stronger genes
• More offspring
• Better traits

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What word describes the process of having the advantageous traits that helps an organism survive  and reproduce?

• natural selection
• adaptation
• mutation
• genetic engineering

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Do organisms "decide" to evolve and change?

• Yes, they know they need to change to survive 
• No, they change because of natural selection

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A __________ includes all living and non-living things in an environment. 

• population
• niche
• abitotic
• ecosystem

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