A model of natural selection

12 questions

1. Individuals with advantageous characteristics are more likely to survive and reproduce. This leads to a process called natural ___.
2. There are differences between these two individuals of the same species of peppered moth. Which word do we use in science for these differences?
3. Which moth has an advantage in the competition to hide from predators?
4. Which moth is the most likely to survive to reproduce?
5. The genes for which type of colouration are most likely to become more common in later generations of the moths?
6. Most of the trees in the moths’ habitat change to have light-coloured bark. Put the statements in order, to explain how this could cause the population of moths to change.
7. In the model of natural selection, what do the cocktail sticks represent?
8. In the model of natural selection, what do the students picking up the cocktail sticks represent?
9. There is variation in colour between the individual cocktail sticks. The green cocktail sticks are better ___ to stay hidden from predators in the grass.
10. Because they are better camouflaged against the grass, the green cocktail sticks have an ___ in the competition to hide from the predators.
11. Whose prediction is most likely to come true after several rounds of the natural selection model experiment?
12. The natural selection model experiment is played on grey concrete instead of green grass. Whose prediction is most likely to come true after several rounds of the experiment?

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