Evolution
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Fossils
Evidence of Evolution
100
Charles Darwin developed this
What is the theory of evolution?
100
The process by which organisms that inherit traits tend to reproduce more successfully than other organisms.
What is natural selection?
100
when all members of a species have died.
What is extinction?
100
Amber, ice and sedimentary rock.
What are places where can fossils be found?
100
Front limb of a bat and a cat.
What are common structures?
200
The galapagos islands
What is where darwin did most of his research?
200
When an organism produces more offspring then the environment can support.
What is overproduction?
200
A frog blends in with its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
200
These fossils are formed when particles of sand or soil are deposited in horizontal levels.
What are sedimentery rock fossils?
200
the study of development.
What is embryology?
300
He thought organisms acquire traits during their life time and can pass them to their offspring.
Who is Lamarck?
300
Natural differences within a species.
What is genetic variation?
300
Fish use these to breath.
What are gills?
300
these fossils occur when small creatures are trapped in tree sap and the sap hardens.
What are amber fossils?
300
If organisms develop in similar ways they are considered to have this.
What is common ancestors?
400
Process farmers use to select plants and animals for breeding.
What is artificial selection?
400
an inherited trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
What are adaptations?
400
Anteaters have a long snout.
What is an adaption that enables the organism to more easily reach its food source?
400
the remains or imprints of once living organisms.
What are fossils?
400
Chimpanzees and monkeys have this.
What is similar DNA?
500
The earth changes over time
What is evidence that evolution takes place?
500
An early form of a species.
What is an ancestor?
500
This plant catches its food in its sticky leaves and digests it as well.
What is a venus fly trap?
500
Provides evidence about the order in which species have existed through time and how they have changed over time.
What is the fossil record?
500
Pakicetus compared to a Modern whale.
What is evidence that whales developed from hoofed mammals that lived on land?
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