Embryology
This is is an early stage of development in animals before they are born.
What is Embryo?
These are preserved remains or traces of living things from long ago.
What are fossils?
Natural selection is...
What is the process by which organisms better adapt to their environment in order to survive and reproduce?
A definition for adaptation.
What is a trait that improves an organism's ability to survive and reproduce?
A gradual change in the characteristics of living organisms over multiple generations.
What is evolution?
This is why scientists study animals in the early stages of development before birth.
What is to look for similarities?
This is the type of rock fossils are found in.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
An example of variation in natural selection.
What is color/camouflage? Speed? Size?
Physical adaptation help animals survive by...
What is Withstanding their Environment? Evading Predators? Attracting Mates? Increasing Defensive Abilities?
A process where organisms better adapt to their environment.
What is Natural Selection?
Embryos have common features that often develop into something else. (Name just one)
What is the Tails (in humans develops into the 'tailbone')? Gil-like Structures (in humans develop into inner ear/face/neck feature)? Limb Buds?
Sedimentary rock is made with these 5 stages. (Must get all 5!)
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
This old phrase describes how the best-adapted organisms are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is "survival of the fittest"?
Three things does an organism needs to survive. (Must name all 3!)
What is shelter, food and protection?
A specific, heritable characteristic or feature of an organism.
What is a trait?
All animals begin the same way.
What is a fertilized egg?
Studying embryos helps scientists learn about this biological process.
What is Evolution?
This famous scientist developed the theory of natural selection after studying animals in the Galápagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Type of adaptations that are actions or behaviors that an organism exhibits to survive and reproduce: such as migration, hibernation, or the way an animal hunts or defends itself.
What are behavioral adaptations?
A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes and producing offspring.
What is a species?
Controls how an embryo grows and develops.
What is Genetic Information (DNA)?
A bird’s wing and a human arm have similar bones, showing they may have come from this.
What is a Common Ancestor?
A real life example of natural selection.
What is the peppered moth? What is finch beaks?
Type of human activity that impacts the adaptation of a species.
What are human activities like habitat destruction, urbanization, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation (hunting/fishing)? (They are rapidly forcing species to adapt, shift behaviors, or face extinction.)
Means no longer in existence; lost or having died out leaving no living representatives.
What is extinction?