Microevolution Vocab Pt.1

What is adaptation?

• Is the physical or behavioural characteristic of an organism that helps it survive in its environment.

• A device used to plug appliances into a wall.

Mutations in an organism occur in its

• Dining room

• DNA

Which type of adaptation is the lizard using?

• Migration

• Camouflage

What is an variation?

• Change that helps a living thing survive in its environment

• Change in DNA structure

• Natural differences in traits (like color)

Another word for adapt is ____________.

• change
• create

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 

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

• Adaption
• Extinction
• Fossilization
• Mutation

Genetic differences between organisms of the same species

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

The Theory of Evolution was proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin

• Albert Einstein

• Steven Hawking

• Isaac Newton

A relative who lived in the past.

• Charles Darwin
• Speciation
• Ancestor
• Descendant