Natural Selection Flashcards
(11 cards)
What is the main 4 parts of natural selection, in order?
Reproduction, Variation, Competition, and Selection
Two beetles breed and make new colors and those beetles make more offspring with those new colors for even more. What is this an example of?
Natural Selection
What is selective breeding?
Choosing parents with specific traits to produce offspring more desirable traits
What is variation?
Variation is the birth of some offspring that has altered traits
What is the competition part of Natural Selection?
Competition is offspring with traits that helps it in its given environment will survive versus the offspring that doesn’t have those traits.
True or False: Adaptions appear slowly
True
What is selection?
Over time, the better variations are inherited by more and more offspring.
Who was Charles Darwin?
Darwin was the one to develop the theory of evolution, also known as Natural Selection
What is Natural Selection?
the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What were the islands that Darwin stumbled upon called?
Galapago Islands in the Pacific Ocean
What was the HMS Beagle?
a survey ship in the British Navy that Charles Darwin was on as a naturalist
