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Reviews vocabulary used in NYS Beaks of Finches Lab

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mutations and sexual reproduction cause _______ variation   genetic  
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The small ground finch eats or _______ on small seeds.   feeds  
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finches with different beaks were competing for the ________ food, small seeds.   same  
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beaks of different shapes and sizes that help finches eat different seeds are feeding __________   adaptations  
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Finches competed for the same food. Some finches died but finches with better adaptations survived.   struggle for survival  
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There is _____ of offspring because finches lay dozens of eggs.   overproduction  
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Finches overproduce their offspring so that there is a better ____ that some babies will survive.   chance  
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example of an adaptation with high adaptive value   small beak for small seeds  
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example of an adaptation with low adaptive value   large beak is not good for eating small seeds  
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Galapagos Islands has trees with small and large seeds and rainfall. This is the finches' _______.   environment  
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An environmental factor that affects finches survival is_____.   drought  
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overproduction, genetic variation, struggle for survival, reproduction and adaptation, competition are processes that cause______   Characteristics of natural selection  
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a person is to a pencil sharpener as ______ is to evolution   natural selection  
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Natural selection leads to small changes in populations over time. These small changes build up to make big changes or ______.   evolution  
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Two finches have offspring so those offspring are the first ______ of their two parents.   generation  
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Two species of finch live on the same island and eat different food so they can _____.   coexist  
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