Principles of Natural Selection

1. The individuals within a population differ from one another

2. The differences are, at least in part, passed from parents to offspring
3. Some individuals are more successful at surviving and reproducing than others
4. The successful individuals succeed because of the variant traits they have
inherited and will pass to their offspring

Instructions:
Press play
Press brown fur and add friends.

1. Hypothesize which bunnies would better survive in the arctic environment.

Why?

The white bunnies because the white bunnies can camouflage with the snow to
avoid the wolf attack. The brown bunnies are more contrast to the environment
makes it easier to get killed.

2. Choose the arctic environment. What happened? Why?

The environment change in to the artic and everything are white, because covered
by a snow. The growth of the bunnies are more faster and the white bunnies are
suitable in the environment.

3. Add wolves. What happened now? Why?

The wolf attack their prey and the surviving bunnies that can adapt and defend their
life trough the environment.

4. Reset. Press Arctic. Give the bunny white fur. Add friends. Give food. What
happened? Why?
The white bunnies population are expanding and the color of the fur is white

5. Reset. Press Arctic. Click long teeth. Which one is depicted on the chart as a
larger population (long or short teeth)? Why do you think this happened?

Short teeth are the majority but as the time passes the long teeth are catching up
and almost have the same amount of population

6. Click on long tails. Which one is depicted on the chart as a larger population
(long or short tail)? Why do you think this happened?
Same like the teeth case, the major population is the short tail because their are the
parents that spread the offspring
7. Repeat this experiment (steps 1-6) with the equator environment. Which
parameters allow for a better survival rate? Why?
it will be the brown bunnies because the environment are supportive to their
traits which they can camouflage from the wolf in the forest and the land. The
white bunnies are more attractive and easy to find so the predator eat the
white one leaving the brown to survive.
Answers:

1. Bunnies with white fur would be better adapted to the artic environment and
would survive. Answers will vary.
2. Same as 1.
3. Bunnies with brown fur become extinct, leaving only the white bunnies left.
Answers will vary.
4. The bunnies reproduce and dominate the world! Answers will vary.
5. Bunnies with short teeth have a larger population. Answers will vary.
6. Bunnies with short tail have a larger population. Answers will vary.
7. Answers may vary but brown bunnies with short teeth and tails will have a
better survival rate.