Vocabulary
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Natural Selection 4
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The process by which species cease to exist is
What is extinction?
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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?
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7
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If a rabbit blends in with its environment and avoids predators, this trait is an example of...
Camouflage
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The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted individuals
Natural Selection
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What can you infer about this group of moths?
The darker ones have adapted to the new environment and changed over time.
The lighter ones are less hunted and easily able to camouflage.
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What is the vocabulary for "survival of the fittest"?
What is Natural Selection?
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Even if a trait helps an organism survive, it will not become common unless what also happens?
Reproduction. Traits being passed from parents to offspring.
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Preserved remains of once-living organisms
Fossil
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What is a change in a gene that results in a new trait?
What is a mutation?
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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
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The process through which species change over time
Evolution
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A TRAIT that helps an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
What is Adaptation?
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What would happen if the environment changes drastically and no organisms have fitting adaptations?
What is a species could go extinct?
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Unlike bones or shells, trace fossils give us information about this instead of what the organism looked like.
How the organism moved, what it ate, was it running or walking.
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Can an organism "CHOOSE" to evolve and change?
No, organisms CANNOT CHOOSE to change their genes or traits!
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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
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The occurrence of hereditary or nonhereditary differences between different individuals of a population
Variation
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A footprint, burrow, or trail left behind by an organism are all examples of this type of fossil.
Trace fossils
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Explain the difference between artificial and natural selection.
Artificial selection is when the human controls the
reproduction in order to influence the traits present in offspring. Natural selection is a process
by which a population’s environment determines
which traits are beneficial and which are not.
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In an arctic environment, which would survive longer: red foxes or white foxes? Why?
White foxes because they would be able to blend in or camouflage with the snow better to hide from predators.
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A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes.
Trait