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Inheritance and Variation

This document is a science worksheet about evolution, inheritance, and variation for 6th grade students. It contains multiple choice questions about inherited traits versus environmental traits. It asks students to identify inherited traits such as height or eye color. It also contains questions about the definitions of terms like variation, species, and environmental factors. The document checks the students' answers and provides explanations.

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Inheritance and Variation

This document is a science worksheet about evolution, inheritance, and variation for 6th grade students. It contains multiple choice questions about inherited traits versus environmental traits. It asks students to identify inherited traits such as height or eye color. It also contains questions about the definitions of terms like variation, species, and environmental factors. The document checks the students' answers and provides explanations.

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Year 6

Science
Topic: Evolution- Inheritance and variation
A. Choose the correct options
1. Sophie is a tall, 11-year-old drummer. She has a scar on her right cheek.
She is good at swimming. Which of her traits did Sophie most likely
inherit?
a) Scar
b) Height
c)Ability to swim
d) Ability to play the drums

2. A change or difference between animals of the same species is called...


a) Behaviour
b) Environment
c)Offspring
d) Variation

3.Variation is the difference in characteristics between different species.


a) True
b) False

4. Eye colour is an example of a characteristic that shows...


a) Inherited variation
b) Environmental variation
c) Species variation
d) Biological variation

5. Why does Scar have a scar but his brother Mufasa does not?
a) Mufasa did not inherit it
b) The scar gene skipped a generation
c) The scar is an environmental trait
d) Mufasa is not his brother
B.

Check Your Ans:

A b).Height

2. d) Variation

3. b) False
4. a) Inherited variation

5. c) The scar is an environmental trait.

B.1 Sun exposure

2 pest invastion

3. No watering done

4. woodpecker or other birds building nests.

5. working out in the gym

6 tree growing in search of sunlight

2 . organism

Species

Variation

Environmental factors

Physical variations

Enironmental physical factors

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