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    This document discusses a game that simulates changes in peppered moth populations due to pollution and predation. The game has players complete data on light and dark forest moth populations. It also has players explain how moth color increases survival chances and the concept of natural selection using moths as an example.

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    This document discusses a game that simulates changes in peppered moth populations due to pollution and predation. The game has players complete data on light and dark forest moth populations. It also has players explain how moth color increases survival chances and the concept of natural selection using moths as an example.

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    This document discusses a game that simulates changes in peppered moth populations due to pollution and predation. The game has players complete data on light and dark forest moth populations. It also has players explain how moth color increases survival chances and the concept of natural selection using moths as an example.

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    March 4 Peppered Moth Game

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    This document discusses a game that simulates changes in peppered moth populations due to pollution and predation. The game has players complete data on light and dark forest moth populations. It also has players explain how moth color increases survival chances and the concept of natural selection using moths as an example.

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    Name:___Eman________________________ Date:___________

    Peppered Moth Game


    Objective: Simulate changes in moth population due to pollution and predation, and observe how species can
    change over time.

    Go to: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/peppered-moths-game/play.html and read each


    section before you play the game, answer the questions as you go.

    Peppered Moth

    1. Where do peppered moths live? England, Europe, and North America.

    2. a) What color is the "typica" version of the moths? light

    b) What color is the "carbonaria" version?dark, almost black, bodies

    3. How do adult moths survive predation?Peppered moths have extra camouflage to help them hide in . The
    trees they live in have light-colored bark and are covered with small lichens, organisms that are part fungus
    and part algae or bacteria.

    4. Why would dark moths have an advantage? Their dark color help them to camouflage from their predation
    because they can blend in with the trees color . so they wont be found easily and they will be able to survive
    and reproduce. Which make them fittest then the white ones.

    Play the Game


    5. Complete the data table for the light forest and the dark forest.

    Percent Dark Moths Percent Light Moths

    Light Forest 0% 100%

    Dark Forest 92% 8%

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    Final Analysis

    6. Explain how the color of the moths increases or decreases their chances of survival.

    Their color increases their chance of survival because the more the color is match to its surrounding the
    harder for predators to see them and hunt them . which increase their overall fitness and reproduction
    and they will be able to survive for the coming years.

    7. Explain the concept of natural selection using your moths as an example.

    Natural selection is the process where traits that increase an organism's chance of survival and
    reproduction become more common in a population over time. In moths, lighter-colored individuals may
    be favored by natural selection if their coloration provides better camouflage against predators.

    8. Predict what would happen if there were no predators in the forest. Would the moth colors have changed?
    Why or why not?

    Without predators, the selective pressure for specific moth colorations would decrease, resulting in
    relatively stable colors.

    9. Efforts to reduce pollution began occurring later in the century. If pollution near factories was reduced, what
    would happen to the color of the moths? Explain your answer.

    If pollution near factories was reduced, the color of moths would likely shift towards lighter shades over
    time.

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