Natural Selection Unit Vocabulary

How would you describe the histogram above?

• Most of the ostrilopes have no fur

• Most of the ostrilopes have medium length fur

• There is only one type of fur in this population

• Most of the ostrilopes have thick fur

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

How would you describe the variation in this histogram?

• There is high variation

• There is no variation

• There is low variation

How would you describe the population shown in the histogram?

• The ostrilopes have thick fur

• The ostrilopes don't have a lot of fur

• the population has a lot of variation

• the population has no variation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which of the following is an adaptive trait?

• yellow ostrilopes in a green environment with predators present

• yellow ostrilopes in a yellow environment with predators present

• multiple colors of ostrilopes in a yellow environment with predators present

• all of the ostrilopes dying off

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which of the following is a non-adaptive trait?

• ostrilopes with thin fur a hot environment

• ostrilopes with thick fur in a hot environment

• ostrilopes with thick fur in a cold environment

If this population is adaptive, after 50 years how will this population change if there is a lot of rainfall?

• the thornpalms will shift to store more water

• the thornpalms will die out

• the thornpalms will stay about the same

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

If this population is adaptive, after 50 years how will this population change if there is little to no rainfall?

• the thornpalms will stay about the same

• the thornpalms will shift to store less water

• the thornpalms will shift to store more water

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which of the following is an adaptive trait?

• thornpalms with low water storage when there is medium rainfall

• thornpalms with high water storage when there is medium rainfall

• thornpalms with high water storage when there is low rainfall

• thornpalms with high water storage when there is high rainfall

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What would be something that would cause a population to be adaptive?

• a change in the climate/ weather

• predators

• low food supply

• high food supply

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Why did the newts become poisonous?

• they wanted to

• they were attacked by another poisonous animal

• snakes were introduced to their environment

• they needed to protect themselves from predators

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4