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complete my quiz.
LTLT#3 Quiz
Due Friday December 5, 2014
Instructions: You can use your science
notebooks, evidence folders, or text books to help you with your quiz. You must
complete this individually and on your
own. I want to know what YOU know, not what your classmates know.
Answer in complete sentences
Section 1: Adaptation
1. Name a pair of animals from the past and present.
Example: Wooly Mammoth = Elephant
2. Describe THREE reasons
how they have changed.
Example: The
Mammoth lost it’s fur and grew bigger ears.
3. What are the BIG FOUR reasons why organisms are forced to change?
a.
b.
c.
d.
4. Define adaptation:
______________________________________________________
5. What does it mean for an organism to adapt?
6. What are some examples of adaptations that we see in the world?
7. What does the phrase, “Adapt or die mean?
8. What does the phrase, “Survival of the fittest mean?”
Section 2: Traits
9. Define inherited trait:_______________________________________________________________________________
Give 2 examples of an inherited trait.
1.
2.
10. Define: acquired
trait__________________________________________________________________________________
Give 2 examples of an acquired trait:
1.
2.
11. How can an organism’s traits help or hurt its chances for
survival?
12. What is natural selection?
13. What does DNA stand for?
14. What’s the difference between jeans and genes?
Section 3: Evolution
15. Define Evolution:
____________________________________________________________________________________
16. Describe Darwin’s finches.
BONUS QUESTION: 3. What is the fossil record, and how can we use
information from it to support the idea of evolution or changes over time?
Section 4: Interactions among
organisms
17. Describe the 5 types of interactions between organisms.
a.
Mutualism:
*Give an
example of a mutualism.
b.
Commensalism:
*Give an example of commensalism.
c.
Parasitism:
*Give an example of parasitism.
d.
Predation:
*Give an example of predation
e.
Competition:
*Give an example of competition
18.Match the example with the type of interaction that is occurring;
____________
PREDATION a.
A Lion and a cheetah share space and both hunt zebras
____________ COMPETITION b.
A mountain lion eats deer
____________
PARASITISM c.
A small fish cleans the skin of a shark and the fish gets food from it
____________
MUTUALISM d.
A deer tick gets blood and nutrients from a deer, but doesn’t kill it.
____________
COMMENSALISM e. A
jack fish using a shark to hide from predators, but the shark doesn’t get
anything in return.
19.The Tiger Mussel (a shellfish like a clam)
has invaded the western coast of the United States in the past 15 years. It
preys (eats) on Blue Mussels. In the
time since the Tiger Mussel has arrived, the average shell thickness has
increased in the Blue Mussel. What is the most likely reason for the increase
in shell thickness in that time? Circle one.
a. Blue
Mussels with thick shells catch more food
b. Blue
Mussels with thick shells live in larger populations
c.
Blue Mussels with thick shells are eaten by
Tiger Mussels more often
d.
Blue Mussels with thick shells survive and
reproduce better than ones without thick shells
20. Define species:
21. Define population:
22. Define Community:
23. What does BIOTIC mean?
*Give 3 examples
1.
2.
3.
What does ABIOTIC mean?
*Give 3 examples.
1.
2.
3.
BONUS QUESTION: In a forest full of pine trees (with brown
bark) and aspen trees (with mostly white bark) there are brown and white
beetles that live on the bark of the tree. It turns to a forest full of
ONLY aspen trees.
a. Make
a prediction about what would happen over time to the beetles.
b.
What is the name for the process that would take
place?
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