Answer:
The correct answer is: A. Only the best-adapted animals in a population survive.
Explanation:
- Natural Selection is the process by which the individuals of a species which has the potential to sustain and survive in adverse or changing environment gets a survival advantage over those individuals which are unable to adapt themselves to altered environmental conditions.
- As the less potent individuals die in altered environmental conditions the adaptable individuals escapes competition with them for natural resources.
- Evolution causes species to alter their characteristics depending upon the demand of the conditions. These changes can vary, can be less or drastic.
- Animals pass all the newly adapted traits to the successive generations either as genetic traits or as acquired traits, as this is necessary for the offspring to survive in the altered environment.
- Natural selection is best defined as "the survival of the fittest".
Chemical weathering refers to the erosion or total disintegration of rocks that are caused by chemical reactions and not by mechanical processes. Usually water and other liquid substances causes this to occur. Skyscrapers or buildings are prone to chemical weathering because they are constantly exposed to precipitation and other elements in the atmosphere. In rocks, when this process happens they tend to crumble and form smaller rock pieces. It is important to note that during this stage, the end product is a totally different substance than its original phase.
