Vocabulary
What is the term for changes of a species over time?
What is evolution?
A Giant African Millipede releasing poison through its skin is a _____________ adaptation.
What is chemical?
A flock of birds moving from a colder to a warmer climate is an example of _________________.
What is migration?
What is the process called when a human ALLOWS two breeds of the same type of doges to mate and reproduce?
What is selective breeding?
Bacteria that are resistant to an antibiotic and are not killed....survive and reproduce
What is True?
What is an error in the genetic code called?
What is a mutation?
The long legs on a Maned wolf is a ________________ adaptation.
What is structural?
When out of a population of short-necked giraffes, a long-necked giraffe emerges, this is an example of a ___________________.
What is a mutation?
Which type of rabbit population will survive in a warmer climate..... Light colored thin fur rabbit or a dark colored thick fur rabbit?
What is a light color thin fur rabbit?
Adaptations are changes in a species that allow it to survive and reproduce.
What is True?
What is the term given when favorable traits help a species survive and reproduce?
What is natural selection?
An opossum playing dead is a ______________ adaptation....
What is behavioral?
An example of _________________ is when a beetle blends into its surrounding environment because of its color and survives and reproduces.
What is natural selection?
What is the term when green colored insects adapted to their environment and survived attacks by birds looking to eat their prey?
What is natural selection?
In a warm environment, dark colored rabbits with thicker fur will increase, while light colored rabbits with thin fur will decrease.
What is False?
What is the term given to the movement of a species or alleles from one population to another called?
What is migration?
A special protein inside a spider's body is a type of __________________ adaptation.
What is chemical?
An example of an _________________ is when a the walking stick insect camouflages into its environment in order to prevent itself from being eaten by its predators.
What is an adaptation?
The type of adaptation when the walking stick looks just like a twig is called _________________.
What is camouflage?
If in the same environment, a dark colored insect survives and reproduces, while the light colored ones die, this occurs because the dark colored insects blended into their environment.
What is True?
What are the traits given to a species that allow it to survive in an environment called?
What is an adaptation?
The quills or spines on a porcupine are a type of ____________________ adaptation.
What is a structural adaptation?
An example of _________________ is when there are different colored rabbits like white and brown.
What is variation?
What can happen to a species of organisms that cannot adapt to its environment?
What is it becomes extinct?
When a walking stick blends into its environment, this is called symbiosis.
What is False?