Vocabulary
Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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Random
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What is the genetic material that contains the information for life?
What is DNA?
100
Yellow beetle and green beetles live in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:
What is the green population will increase and the yellow will decrease?
100
Darwin used this phrase to describe the way that the environmental conditions determine which organisms survive to reproduce.
What is Natural Selection?
100
Can an organism "CHOOSE" to evolve and change?
No, organisms CANNOT CHOOSE to change their genes or traits!
100
In an arctic environment, which would survive longer: red foxes or white foxes?
White foxes
200
This is what we call the differences among offspring in a species.
What is variation?
200
What is most likely to happen to moth populations in the picture shown?
Dark moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population decreases.
200
Does natural selection typically take a long time or a short time?
What is a Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time?
200
Due to pollution, a pond becomes darker over time. Which trait variation became more common?
What is dark fish?
200
What is the name of the ship that sank in 1912?
Titanic
300
What is a change in a gene that results in a new trait?
What is a mutation?
300
Evidence of the changes in a species' physical characteristics over long geological periods can best be shown through a study of
What is the fossil record
300
This is the term that describes how well an organism is suited for its environment?
What is "fitness"?
300
What word describes a TRAIT that HELPS AN ORGANISM SURVIVE in its environment?
What is ADAPTATION?
300
What is the largest continent?
Asia
400
A TRAIT that helps an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
What is Adaptation?
400
What would happen if the environment changes drastically and no organisms have fitting adaptations?
What is a species could go extinct?
400
After traveling to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed a lot of variation among beak sizes in Finches. This variation was a result of:
Developing different adaptations in order to survive on particular islands
400
What are structures that remain in modern organisms from ancient relatives that no longer serve a purpose. Ex: Appendix and wisdom teeth
What are Vestigial strucures?
400
How many teeth does an adult human have? (Closest without going over wins)
32
500
This is what it is called when two animals live in the same area and eat the same kind of food or need the same resources.
What is Competition?
500
What is a factor or factors that affect natural selection?
What is variation, competition and fitness
500
What is the "goal" of natural selection for a species?
What is "SURVIVE" and "REPRODUCE?"
500
What do we call structures in different organisms that are similar in shape and structure but server a different purpose. This indicates a common ancestor
What are homologous strucures?
500
What does "www" stand for in a browser?
World Wide Web