AP Environmental Science › Natural Selection
An organism's fitness, as it applies in natural selection, involves __________.
What is the term for the formation of new species through the course of evolution?
What two factors determine biological fitness?
Evolution occurs through a process called natural selection.
What are the four premises or observations of natural selection?
What is the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment?
In a particular habitat, Species A competes with Species B for food resources. Which type of competition is this?
A new predator, the red-tailed hawk has been introduced to a meadow ecosystem with several rodent species with varying behaviors and characteristics. Hawks hunt by day, swooping down into areas without dense foliage and grabbing their prey by surprise. Which species are most likely to decline by introducing this top predator?
__________ is responsible for the idea of natural selection.
"Survival of the fittest" is often used to describe Darwin's theory of natural selection; however, which of the following choices better describes the theory of adaptation by natural selection?
Which of the following is an example of an initial step associated with natural selection?