Write your answers to the following questions in the essay box below:

which bird was most successful in the first 500,000 years? why do you think so?
what kinds of mutations were more beneficial? why?
which bird(s) was/were most successful after 1,000,000 years? why were they more successful?
how similar or different were the birds after 1,000,000 years compared to the original bird characteristics you chose? why did they change that way? (think about the environments you created in the second part.)
which characteristics do you think affect the overall survival of the bird? why?
how does this activity simulate natural selection?

I did this lesson, the answers will not be the same if you do the simulation yourself, but I already did it so you don't have to

1. The southwest population of birds

2.The tiny birds with a medium beak and a plumage of yellow

3.The northeast population of birds where most succesful after 1,000,000 years this could be because their beaks where around medium length and where curved, Their body sixe was also medium

4.The simularity of the birds from 500,000 years to 100,000,000 years is the fact of them being medium along with their curved beaks. The difernce is that the birds grew from being tiny to medium length birds. They evolved.

5. I think the chareristcs that helped the bird would be the size of the bird (how big or small) also the plumage and thee type of beaks it has (curved or straight). This could be because the type of beak it has sets a place for the kind of food it can have. The type of bdy sets a place for predators and home

Adaptations are formed by the random mutations of the cell of an organism by which natural selection has forced them to. This enables the organism to survive and thrive.