Natural Selection and Adaption Example of Mice
Use a video and associated reading that shows that climate change can be a selective pressure in natural selection. It uses the example of coat colour in the Snowshoe hare populations in North America. Use the questions from this resource to quiz students.
- Use this interactive resource titled 'The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation' to demonstrate an example of natural selection.
- Explore how a selection pressure of dark coloured surfaces on light coloured pocket mice has resulted in a natural selection for darker coloured pocket mice that are better camouflaged against predators.
Light colored mouse
- Use the questions from this resource to evaluate your understanding of the theory of natural selection when a selective pressure is in play.
Dark coloured mouse
Video presented by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI Biointeractive)