Evolution

Question 1

Selection pressure*

Answer 1

Circumstances that kill a lot of the population of a species, leaving only the most adapted to survive.
1. Competition
2. Predators
3. Disease

Question 2

Variation

Answer 2

Differences in characteristics of individuals in a species.

Question 3

Adaptation

Answer 3

How living species adjust to their environment, either physically or behaviourally.

Question 4

Natural selection

Answer 4

When individuals in a species that are less fitted to the environment die, while the more fitted individuals survive, reproduce and pass on their genes to its offspring/the next generation

Question 5

Inheritance

Answer 5

Genes/Traits that are passed onto newer generations

Question 6

Genes/traits

Answer 6

The characteristics of living things that can be passed on to the next generation.

Question 7

Mutation

Answer 7

Rare changes in genes that give individuals rare characteristics. This can help the species survive through selection pressures (dark moths for example).

Question 8

Species

Answer 8

A group of living things with very similar characteristics (egenskaper).