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Name: ________________________________________________ Natural Selection Webquest Period: ______ Name_________________________ Site A: Have some fun and play “Darwin’s Evolution Game” @ http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/darwin/darwin.html. Answer the questions as you are able to. Be sure you are answering the entire question!!!! 1. What does “survival of the fittest” mean? 2. How would you describe your starting environment? What kinds of landforms are present? What kind of vegetation is there? Anything else that is noteworthy? 3. Draw your 3 starting variants of your species and describe why you chose the ones that you did in the table below. What advantages did you think they might have over some of the other options? Trial #1 Picture of variant 1. Reason for choice 2. 3. How long did your species survive? _________ 4. Repeat the above until you make it to 1,000,000 years!! Use a blank sheet of paper to make the table to show your variants and label them “Trial #2”, “Trial #3” and so on. 5. Once your species has succeeded, take the quiz on the site and write in the letter to the correct responses below: 1. ____ 8. ____ 2. ____ 9. ____ 3. ____ 10. ____ 4. ____ 11. What was the name of the guy 5. ____ pictured on the right page? 6. ____ 7. ____ _______________________ Page 1 Name: ________________________________________________ Period: ______ Site 2: http://www.biology-online.org/2/11_natural_selection.htm 3. Which part of the finch has changed over time? 4. For each of these diagrams, write what type of food the beak shape is best suited for. a. ______________ b. ____________ c. _____________ d. ________________ Site 3: http://www.experiment-resources.com/darwins-finches.html Read the first two sections "Darwin's Finches" and "The Galapagos Islands" 5. Did Darwin first believe that each finch he found was a different species? Was he right or wrong? 6. How did organisms arrive at the Galapagos Islands? Site 4: http://www.biology-online.org/2/12_selective_breeding.htm 7. Why is selective breeding useful to farmers? 8. What does it mean to selectively breed an organism? Page 2 Name: ________________________________________________ Period: ______ Site 5 http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_insects/Mimicry.htm 9. What is mimicry? How might an organism benefit from using mimicry? Site 6: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/mimicry/mimicry-interactive Look at the images in the slideshow. Click on the organisms that are hiding in plain sight. 10. Give three examples of mimicry. Site 7: http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/selection/selection.ht ml 11. Does natural selection act on individuals or does it act on something else? Explain this. 12. What are the 4 components of natural selection? 1. __________________________________________________________________ 2. __________________________________________________________________ 3. __________________________________________________________________ 4. __________________________________________________________________ Page 3