Natural Selection

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

The trees these moths used to live on were white, but have been covered in soot from coal factories. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?

• Dark moth
• Light moth
• Both will be equally successful
• Neither will be successful

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest.

• Extinction
• Speciation
• Natural Selection
• Artificial Selection

Another term for Natural Selection is:

• Breeding

• Commensulism

• Communism

• Survival of the fittest

A slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species. (Example: Some rabbits have white fur and some have black fur.)

• variations

• adapatations

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

WHAT DOES DARWIN'S THEORY SAY?

• THE ANIMAL CHANGES ON THE DIFFERENT GENERATIONS AS A RESULT OF THE ACTIONS OF THE PARENTS TO SURVIVE.

• THE CHANGES ON THE ANIMALS ARE THE RESULT OF THE NATURAL SELECTION.

Which naturalist suggested that species evolved by the "use it or lose it" idea?

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wallace

• Thomas Malthus

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck