Natural Selection

Grade 5•45 minutes•5.LS4.2: Use evidence to construct an explanation for how variations in characteristics among individuals within the same species may provide advantages to those individuals in their survival and reproduction.

Learning Objective

I can explain how differences between individuals in a group of animals or plants can help some survive and reproduce better than others.

Practice Questions

This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.

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1. The video mentioned fast rabbits escaping foxes. Can you think of another animal and a trait that helps it survive in its environment? Explain how that trait helps it survive.

2. Imagine there's a population of birds. Some have long beaks, and some have short beaks. If the only food available is deep inside long, thin flowers, which birds are more likely to survive and why?

3. The video discussed how male elephants with larger tusks are more likely to reproduce. Why is it important for animals to reproduce in order for their species to survive?

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