Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Barkley

• Isaac Newton

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The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution

• Nucleotide 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

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

• increase in number
  

• become extinct
  

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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 

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What is this an example of?

• diversity of species

• variation

• vestigial structures

• DNA studies

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A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals

• Generation Time

• Fossil Record

• Extinct

• Speciation

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Where did Charles Darwin travel to?

• Australia

• Barbados

• Galapagos 

• Trinidad

A trait that makes an individual different from others of its species

• Variation

• punctuated equilibrium

• species

• Lamarck

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A giraffe having a long enough neck to reach leaves from a tree to eat is an example of ______

• mimicry

• camoflauge

• adaptation

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To adjust to a changing environment

• Mutation

• Adapt

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