Lab: Natural Selection Answers

Veronica wrote Charles Darwin’s main points on the board, but she made a mistake in one point.1. Since more offspring are produced than an environment can support, organisms within a population must compete for resources to survive.2. Due to variations within the population, some competitors will be better equipped for survival than others.3. The best-equipped organisms will survive and will produce well-equipped offspring. 4. Variations that help with survival will be passed on to future generations and will rapidly change the whole population.Which point is flawed as written above?

A frog has more offspring than can survive on available resources.Of which is this an example?

Which organism exhibits behavioral adaptation?

Natural selection is a process by which organisms that are better adapted to their environment tend to

Consider this image of a gazelle.Which of the gazelle’s naturally selected traits is shown in this picture to be an evolutionary advantage?

Which best describes the relationship between evolution and natural selection?

A population of rabbits has individuals with fur coloring that ranges from white to brown. The population lives in a temperate deciduous forest where the summers are mild and average about 50°F. The winters are often below freezing. If warmer temperatures last longer into the fall and the average temperature in the winter is getting warmer, what do you expect to happen to the population?

Which would least likely be a cause of natural selection?

Which was Charles Darwin’s contribution to the study of biology?

Charles Darwin observed a unique beak size and shape in the finch population of each of the Galapagos Islands that he visited. Which is the most likely cause of the observed variation?