Natural Selection Test Review

Humans cross plants or animals with desirable traits to create offspring that also have those traits

• adaptation

• adaptive radiation

• natural selection

• selective breeding

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NGSS.MS-LS4-5

This pigeon has been bred by humans to have feathered feet that do not occur in its natural ancestor.

• coevolution

• natural disaster

• natural selection

• artificial selection

Which factor does NOT affect the distribution of organisms?

• climate

• the color of their hair

• elevation

• geological history of a region

These birds are all descended form one ancestor. Their beak shapes have changed over time due to food availability.

• adaptation

• natural selection

• adaptive radiation

• heredity

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the name of the book that Darwin wrote?

• Speciation by Natural Selection

• Natural Selection: Journey of the Beagle

• New Species

• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

What is the mechanism by which species adapt to their environment in order to survive?

• genetics

• development

• artificial selection

• natural selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is the name of the ship that Darwin traveled on from 1831 to 1836?

• HMS Beagle

• Pinta

• Nina

• Santa Maria

What is the site of Darwin's most famous observation?

• Bahamas

• Hawaii

• Galapagos Islands

• Jamaica

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA
• tRNA
• genotype
• phenotype

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4