Vocabulary
Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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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. What what will happen to this population?
The green population will increase and the yellow will decrease
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What is the vocabulary for "survival of the fittest"?
What is Natural Selection?
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Animals herding, protecting their young, mating calls, and overproduction are all examples of increasing the odds of __________________.
What is reproduction?
100
In an arctic environment, which would survive longer: red foxes or white foxes?
White foxes
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The process by which new species originate and can no longer interbreed with others in the group
What is speciation?
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What is most likely to happen to moth populations in the picture shown?
Dark moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population decreases.
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Does natural selection typically take a long time or a short time?
What is a Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time?
200
Factories changing the surrounding environment by emitting soot is an "accidental" example of...
Artificial selection
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A group of fish have been observed to show changes in mouth structure over many generations. What is this change a result of?
Fish adapting to the food source for survival.
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What is a change in a gene that results in a new trait?
What is a mutation?
300
Differences among a species, large or small.
What is variation?
300
The process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits.
What is artificial selection?
300
Nature chooses organisms that are ____________.
Stronger or more fit?
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Variations that are favorable become known as _____________.
What is adaptation?
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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?
The species could go extinct
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After traveling to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed a lot of variation among beak sizes in Finches. This variation was a result of:
Different food sources.
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When a predator is not present, what other factors determine an organism's survival?
Environment or food source
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Where did Darwin's voyage embark from?
What is England?
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More offspring will be produced than survive.
What is overproduction?
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Natural selection works ______________ weaker members of a population.
What is against?
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When a population does not overpopulate OR die out.
What is sustainability, equilibrium, or stability?
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A large group of babies due to overproduction
A litter
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Ancestors of the Galápagos finches who had large strong beaks were most likely adapted to eating?
What are hard shelled seeds