Read the following scenarios. Then explain how natural selection will occur in each. Include the four principles of natural selection (overproduction of offspring, adaptation, variation, and descent with
modification) as well as what condition(s) drive natural selection,
1. Some worms eat at night (meaning they are nocturnal) and some
worms eat during the day (meaning they are diurnal.) Most birds
eat only during the day, so they are only eating diurnal worms, due
to the fact that the nocturnal worms are burrowing during this time.
Each spring when the worms reproduce about 500 offspring are
born but only 100 of them live long enough to reproduce
themselves,