Life Over Time

Natural selection results in change in a population's _____________ traits over time.

• inherited

• acquired

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Which best describes the phrase survival of the fittest?

• strongest in a population are most successful

• fastest in a population are most successful

• those that can survive and reproduce are most successful

• those that can live the longest are most successful

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The environment around Manchester, England, changed during the Industrial Revolution.  How did this change affect peppered moths living in the area?

• Natural selection favored moths with dark wings because predators could not see them on the soot-colored trees.

• Natural selection favored moths with white wings that were easy for predators to see.

• Natural selection favored moths with white wings because predators could not see them on the soot-colored trees.

• Natural selection caused moths with white wings to become extinct.

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When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption

• Extinction

• Fossilization

• Mutation

What most likely caused the finches on the Galapagos Islands to have beaks that were differnt from the finches living on the South American mainland?

• They were different types of food available on the island.

• The finches on the islands had to drink salt water.

• There were different types of predators living on the island.

• The finches on the mainland built different types of nests.

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An anatomical feature that no longer seems to have a purpose in the current form of an organism

• Homologous structure

• Analogous structure

• Vestigial structure

• None of the above

Which of the following are vestigial structures humans have? Select all that apply.

• Appendix

• Tailbone

• Forearm bones

• Goosebumps

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Match the following

• Traits similar in two different species

• Extinction

• When ALL members of a species die

• Vestigial structure

• Leftover traits that no longer have a purpose

• Homologous Structure

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• genes.

• variations.

• traits.

• theories.

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The person who developed a hypothesis, which eventually became a theory, of how evolution takes place..

• Alfred Wegener

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Albert Einstein

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