Understanding the Peppered Moth

What is the reason for the color variation in peppered moths?

• Genetic mutation

• Natural selection

• Climate change

• Diet

How does the camouflage of peppered moths give them an advantage in their environment?

• It helps them find food more easily.

• It allows them to blend in with their surroundings to avoid predators.

• It makes them more attractive to mates.

• It helps them regulate their body temperature.

Explain how industrial pollution affected the population of peppered moths during the Industrial Revolution.

• It caused the moths to migrate to other areas.

• It led to an increase in the population of light-colored moths.

• It resulted in a higher survival rate for dark-colored moths due to better camouflage on soot-covered trees.

• It had no significant impact on the moth population.

What is the term used to describe the process by which populations of organisms change over time due to environmental changes?

• Genetic drift

• Speciation

• Natural selection

• Mutation

These moths are all the same species. The differences between their wings is an example of ________________

• Natural Selection
• Variation
• Homeostasis
• Extinction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Why is the mouse population changing over time?

• The light mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark mice

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because the dark mice taste better

• The hawks eat more light mice than dark mice because they can see the light mice more easily

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily