Introduction:Due to global warming, hundreds of polar bears have been rescued from their thawing Arctic icecap, and arebeing relocated to the Antarctic. A cargo ship carrying hundreds of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) has hit asubmerged rock along the way and is starting to sink. While the people were rescued by the Coast Guard, thebears aboard were not so lucky, they have to swim to the nearest shore to survive. Luckily the humansreleased them from their cages beforeabandoning ship.There are 3 nearby lands which the bears canreach before they drown or get eaten byhungry sharks, but these bears are not welladapted to survive on this land. Many ofthem will die. They do, however, have goodsenses of hearing, sight, and smell, and caneat a wide variety of food; not to mentionthat they are highly intelligent. Over manythousands of years, random mutation andnatural selection will allow some of the bearsto evolve into a new species that is better adapted to survival on this new land.Assignment:Knowing what you do now about evolution and Darwin's theory of natural selection, your job is to determinethe 6 likely traits that the bears would evolve to have, resulting from the conditions of the new land.Adaptations can be structural (to the body itself, ie. color) or behavioral (mating season, preferred habitat,nocturnal/diurnal, etc). Think about the build and anatomy of a normal polar bear, then draw your new bearthe variations and adaptations that may have evolved in your bear species to survive the environment of thisnew land.You will:1. Pick one habitat from the list: Sunshine Desert, Muddy Marsh, Berry Patches & Fishing Piers.2. Draw/modify your bear with 6 adaptations likely developed after 10,000 years of evolution in the habitatselected. Adaptations should be based on the natural selection pressures of the new land.3. Individually, complete the table that lists your bear's new adaptations, their origins (what they use tolook like), and how the adaptation allows the bear to survive.4. Answer the questions at the bottom of the table. llowing in urMRNATable 1: Bear Adaptations and their Benefits1. Fill out the chart with the bears' 6 adaptations that it has acquired after 10,000 years of evolution whileliving on the new land.Adaptations for the Land Area calledAdaptationDerived From (whatType: Structural,Survival Benefit(new/evolved feature) was it like before)Physiological, orBehavioral2. Why does it take a long time for the bear to evolve to have the new traits?3. What would happen if there was not a lot of variety in the bears when they first reached the island?4. Using the 6 main points of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, describe how and why bears evolvedin their new environment. (Include the words: overproduction, natural selection, competition,variation, adaptation, & speciation).

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ANSWER 2.) -Bears are iconic mammals with a complex evolutionary history. Natural bear hybrids and…