Unit 7: Natural Selection and Evolution

What is this an example of: There are about 100,000 people living in Santa Maria.

• Population
• Trait
• Generation
• Adaptive Trait

What is the example of: My grandparents, my parents, then me.

• Population
• Trait
• Generation
• Adaptive Trait

In our class histogram about height, the variation we graphed was ...

• Number of Students
• Height
• Variation
• Distribution

In our class histogram about height, the distribution we graphed was ...

• Number of Students
• Height
• Variation
• Distribution

Giant pandas live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, at elevations between 5,000 and 10,000 feet. This is an example of ...

• Environment
• Population
• Trait

The blubber of a whale enables the whale to stay warm in cold ocean temperatures. What is this an example of?

• Adaptive Trait
• Non-Adaptive Trait
• Variation
• Distribution

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Which organisms are more likely to reproduce?

• A lizard with an adaptive trait to help him camouflage into his environment

• A lizard with a non-adaptive trait to help him camouflage into his environment.

• A lizard with both adaptive and non-adaptive traits.

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True or False: A population can be described by the traits present and by the number of individuals who have each trait.

• True
• False

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True or False: The number of individuals in a population always stays the same.

• True
• False

True or False: Over many generations, individuals with adaptive traits become more common and individuals with nonadaptive traits become less common.

• True
• False

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