Exploring Artificial Selection
A Grade 6 science worksheet introducing artificial selection, focusing on how humans influence traits in organisms like dogs and plants.
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Exploring Artificial Selection
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand how humans can influence the traits of living organisms.
1. What is artificial selection?
When nature chooses which organisms survive.
When humans choose organisms with desirable traits to breed.
When animals choose their own mates.
When plants grow without human interference.
2. Which of the following is an example of artificial selection?
Birds with strong beaks survive in a drought.
A farmer breeds cows that produce a lot of milk.
Fish adapting to colder water temperatures.
Trees growing taller to reach sunlight.
3. Artificial selection is also known as breeding.
4. Humans often use artificial selection to get organisms with traits that are to them.
5. Different breeds of dogs, like poodles and bulldogs, are a result of selection.
6. Imagine you are a farmer. What is one trait you might want to artificially select for in your corn plants? Explain why.
7. Artificial selection only happens in animals, not plants.
True
False
8. Natural selection is when humans choose traits, and artificial selection is when nature chooses traits.
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False
9. Look at the image below. This illustration shows the anatomy of a dog. How do you think artificial selection has led to the wide variety of dog breeds we see today?
