Natural selection and evolution

What is another name for natural selection?

• survival of the smartest
• survival of the fastest
• survival of the biggest
• survival of the fittest

What is a change in an organism that allows for it to survive in its environment?

• homologous
• vestigial
• variation
• adaptation

What is an organism that has similar characteristics and can reproduce?

• species
• organism
• embryology
• vestigial 

What is this an example of?

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

Which layer is the oldest?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 
• dark

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring? 

• Evolution 
• Variation 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection 

Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

• Fossil
• Adaptation
• Ancestor
• Natural selection

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.