Natural Selection Amplify Practice

A group of the same type of organism living in the same area is known as what?

• Organism

• Population

• Environment

• Generation

What is a specific characteristic of an individual organism called?

• Variation

• Distribution

• Trait

• Prediction

What term describes the number of individuals with each trait in a population?

• Distribution

• Variation

• Environment

• Population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is any difference in traits between individual organisms referred to as?

• Adaptive trait

• Non-adaptive trait

• Variation

• Effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What do we call a group of individuals born and living at about the same time?

• Generation

• Population

• Environment

• Trait

Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• Environment

• Population

• Distribution

• Cause

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which term describes a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment?

• Adaptive trait

• Non-adaptive trait

• Variation

• Effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment called?

• Adaptive trait

• Non-adaptive trait

• Cause

• Prediction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know?

• Effect

• Prediction

• Cause

• Trait

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is a result or change that happens because of an event or process?

• Cause

• Effect

• Variation

• Distribution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4