Darwin's Finches

Darwin published his idea of natural selection which explained that

• species naturally go extinct

• species can adapt to their surroundings by choice

• Species have variations that give a competitive advantage and are passed on to offspring

• Species are the same and work together to survive

What is a common ancestor?

• An animal that has a lot of offspring.

• An animal from which two or more different species evolved.

• An animal that is related to many other species.

• An animal that's good at escaping from predators.

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Survival of the Fittest" is often used to explain natural selection. What does it mean?

• The strongest individuals survive

• The fastest individuals survive

• The best-adapted individuals survive

• The smartest individuals survive

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Natural Selection is caused by variation in species along with pressure from the environment. Which could be a selection pressure from the environment?

• Drought like conditions

• Increasing temperatures

• Flooding

• The sun setting

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What islands did Darwin travel to when he made his observations?

• Beagle Islands

• Galapagos Islands

• Hawaiian Islands

• British Islands

I formed the theory of evolution by natural selection after my research of various species of finches on the Galápagos Islands. Who am I?

• Reginald Punnett

• Charles Darwin

• Mr. St. Louis

• Gregor Mendel

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the process in which populations change over time

• basketball

• natural selection

• evolution

• mutation

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Nature has a way of causing organisms that inherit advantageous traits to survive and reproduce more successfully than the ones that don't. This process is known as...

• natural selection

• genetic variation

• adaptation

• overproduction

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Organisms change over time (millions of years) we call this

e___________.

• evolution

• eviction

• evacuation

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Darwin used the Galápagos finches as evidence that

• traits are not hereditary.

• living things change over time.

• birds are different than other species.

• organisms in a species have no relation to one another.

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