Adaptation And Change Question Preview (ID: 312)


This Game Reviews Ways Organisms Are Able To Respond To The Changing Environment And Why The Environments Are Changing. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

What is an adaptation?
a) Physical and behavioral traits that can decrease the chance of survival and reproduction of an organism in one environment
b) Behavioral traits only that can increase the chance of survival and reproduction of an organism in one environment and not an
c) Physical traits only that can increase the chance of survival and reproduction of an organism in one environment and not anot
d) Physical and behavioral traits that can increase the chance of survival and reproduction of an organism in one environment an

What are the three main purposes of structural adaptations?
a) Maintaining structure, getting energy, reproducing
b) Maintaining structure, reproducing, homeostasis
c) Getting energy, reproducing, growth
d) Getting energy, reproducing, finding food

What purpose does a giraffe's long neck serve - maintaining structure, getting energy, or reproducing?
a) Reproducing
b) None of the above
c) Getting energy
d) Maintaining structure

What type of adaptation is based on inherited or learned responses to the surrounding environment?
a) Structural adaptations
b) Behavioral adaptations
c) Outer adaptations
d) None of the above

What types of adaptations might plants have?
a) Growth toward light
b) Root hairs to obtain more water
c) The ability to grow around obstacles
d) All of the above

Which of the following is NOT an abiotic component in an ecosystem?
a) Water pollution
b) Weather
c) Migration
d) Flooding

Which of the following is NOT a type of enviromental change affecting the population size of the giant panda?
a) Introduction of DDT
b) Deforestation
c) Habitat destruction
d) Less bamboo to eat

Which of the following would be least likely to survive a change in its ecosystem?
a) Grasses that can grow in normal or contaminated soil
b) Brown bears that can eat a wide variety of foods
c) Bacteria that can survive in both hot and cold environments
d) Koalas that eat only eucalyptus leaves

Which of the following is true of environmental change?
a) They cannot be caused by human activity
b) They may affect several populations in an ecosystem
c) They have no effect on living organisms in an ecosystem
d) They affect food chains, not food webs

Which of the following is NOT the result of overpopulation?
a) Loss of predators
b) Lyme disease is increasingly common
c) Environmental destruction
d) Food shortages

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