a prey population consists of individuals with a variety of running speeds. The adaption that allows some of these animals to run fast would be an example of natural selection if it helps them

thermophiles, notice the prefix thermo.

the answer is "a.) well–developed vascular system."

explanation:

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.

that would be called plucking : )

explanation:

''plucking, also referred to as quarrying, is a glacial phenomenon that is responsible for the erosion and transportation of individual pieces of bedrock, especially large "joint blocks". as a glacier moves down a valley, friction causes the basal ice of the glacier to melt and infiltrate joints (cracks) in the bedrock."