Handout For Natural Selection Webquest

Natural Selection Webquest Name:_________________________
Task 1: Natural Selection Video

Use any method below to watch the Natural Selection video by the Amoeba Sisters.
As you watch, answer the questions below.
Tiny URL: https://tinyurl.com/ybgdfkd8
Full URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VM9YxmULuo&t=324s
1. How is fitness determined in the biological sense?
2. Why are the lighter colored frogs selected against?
3. What is the mechanism of evolution?
4. If predators and habitat do not change, which shade of frogs will have the greatest fitness?
5. If an organism has a high biological fitness in one habitat, does it mean it will also have a high
biological fitness in a different habitat? Explain.
6. Does natural selection produce a change in individuals or populations?
7. Consider a major environmental change. If there are no organisms in a population that have traits
that allow them to continue to reproduce and survive, what would most likely happen to that
population?
Task 2: Natural Selection Game

Use any of the following links to play the Who Wants to Live One Million Years game.
As you move through the game, read the directions, and answer the questions below.
Tiny URL: https://tinyurl.com/d8b5usdv
Full URL: https://www.scienceisrealeducation.com/featured-project
Click More About Natural Selection

8. Hover over the term species and variations to see the definitions. Copy the definitions in the
spaces below.
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Species:
Variations:
9. Read what Darwin is saying in the bottom of the screen to answer the questions below.
a. Are all members between a species exactly the same?
b. What are some variations that individuals within a species may have?
c. True or False? Variations can be subtle or extreme.
Click Go to Next Page

10. Hover over the term traits to see the definition. Copy the definition below.
Traits:
11. Click breed the pair. Describe what occurs in your own words.
12. Click Go to Next Page. Describe survival of the fittest in your own words.
Click Play the Survival Game

13. Click Proceed. Choose individuals to create a population. What does Darwin say is your goal of
the game?
14. Click Proceed. What will the traits you choose affect?
15. What is Darwin’s hint?
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Look at the variations box in the upper left of the screen. Click through the different mutations by
clicking on more mutations. When you play the game in the next section of this handout, you will
choose three different variations.
16. Click on the Hints book in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. Fill in the following table
based on the pros and cons of the species different adaptations. The first one has been done for
you.
Body Adaptation Pro Con
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Body Adaptation Pro Con
Click Close the Book. Then, choose three different variations of adaptations to start the game.
Remember Darwin’s hint of diversity! You will play the game a few times in order to live one million
years. You will be writing down information from your SECOND and FINAL attempt in the questions
below on this handout. Notice, as the environment changes, traits suited to the new environment will
survive. Play until you win!
SECOND Attempt
17. List the three mutations you selected (use the table above to help you). Explain why you chose
that combination of traits.
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18. What changing environments did you encounter?
19. Did you use any life rafts? If so, what did you change and why did you change it? Explain.
20. Next time, what will you do differently to survive?
FINAL Attempt
21. List the three mutations you selected (use the table above to help you). Explain why you chose
that combination of traits.
22. What changing environments did you encounter?
23. Did you use any life rafts? If so, what did you change and why did you change it? Explain.
24. Pretend that you must explain to a friend how to beat the game quickly. What two mutations would
you recommend for a hot environment and why?
Click Darwin’s Bio on the tab at the top of the screen to answer the following questions.
25. What is the name of the ship that Darwin sailed on?
26. What was Darwin’s role on the ship?
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27. What did Darwin discover in South America?
28. What did Darwin find in the Galapagos Islands and what did it lead it?
29. What book did Darwin write? What did it introduce the world to?
Click Quiz on the tab at the top of the screen to answer the questions. When you answer the
questions in the quiz, write the full answer to the questions below. Not all questions are included on
this handout.
30. In the first part of the explanation for Darwin’s theory of natural selection, every species exhibits
what?
31. Natural selection is only one of the processes of evolution. What is one other process that can
cause a change in a species over time?
32. A species of organism has survived in a mild environment for thousands of years. Suddenly, the
climate becomes much colder. Which of the following traits might help the species to survive?
33. In 1835, Darwin studied variations in plants and animals on the Galapagos Islands. The islands
are located off the coast of what major continent?
34. Which of the following traits might be passed from parent to offspring but not necessarily be
beneficial to the survival of species?
35. In part 3 of Darwin’s theory of natural selection states that life in the wild is competitive, and
organisms with the most beneficial traits will prosper. What is this commonly known as?
36. Write one question and one answer that you think would be good to add to this quiz.
Q.
A.
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37. Write about the process of natural selection in your own words. Use and underline/highlight the
terms adaptations, traits, diversity, mutations, environment, population, and natural selection in
your response.
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Natural Selection Webquest Name:_________________________

Task 1: Natural Selection Video

1. How is fitness determined in the biological sense?

2. Why are the lighter colored frogs selected against?

3. What is the mechanism of evolution?

6. Does natural selection produce a change in individuals or populations?

Task 2: Natural Selection Game

Click More About Natural Selection

c. True or False? Variations can be subtle or extreme.

Click Go to Next Page

Click Play the Survival Game

15. What is Darwin’s hint?

Body Adaptation Pro Con

Thin Stay Cool Cold Weather

Body Adaptation Pro Con

20. Next time, what will you do differently to survive?

22. What changing environments did you encounter?

26. What was Darwin’s role on the ship?

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