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How does the environment affect natural selection?

Lesson Review
Write true if the statement is true. If the statement is false, change the underlined
term to make the statement true.

____________________ 1. All organisms must have a living space that provides food, water, and shelter.

____________________ 2. Tigers that are slower and weaker are more likely to catch deer and survive.
____________________ 3. Human activities cannot produce great changes in the living spaces of other
organisms.

____________________ 4. Extinction is an example of how harmful materials from factories and cars
pollute the air, water, and land.

____________________ 5. After laws were passed in England to reduce air pollution, the number of
gray peppered moths rose.

____________________ 6. Extinction is the disappearance of all members of a species.

____________________ 7. The giant panda and the grizzly bear are both examples of extinct species.

Skill Challenge
Skills: identifying, relating concepts
Answer the questions about the drawings shown below.

Gray moth Black moth

1. Which of these moths would be more likely to survive before the Industrial Revolution? ____________

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2. Which of these moths would be more likely to survive during the Industrial Revolution? ___________

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3. Which of these moths would be more likely to survive after the 1970s? ____________________________

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Answer Key
How does the environment affect natural selection?
Lesson Review
1. true 2. stronger and faster 3. can 4. Pollution
5. true 6. true 7. endangered
Skill Challenge
1. gray moth 2. black moth 3. gray moth

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