A characteristic that improves an individuals ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment
What is adaptation?
100
This provides evidence about the order in which species have existed
What is the fossil record?
100
This explains how a population changes in response to its environment
What is the theory of natural selection?
100
The period between the birth of one generation and the birth of the next generation
What is generation time?
100
The ship Darwin took to travel and made observations that helped him form the theory of how evolution happens
What is HMS Beagle?
200
A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring
What is species?
200
A scientist who studies nature
What is a naturalist?
200
Explain why more and more insects become resistant to insecticide.
What is the few that survive pass the resistance trait to their offspring, therefore more are resistant.
200
This can be produced when a species separates into two groups
What is a new species?
200
The three finches Darwin discovered
What is large ground, cactus, and warbler
300
The process in which inherited characteristics within a population change over generations such that new species sometimes arise
What is evolution?
300
This happens when only organisms that carry these genes can survive to reproduce
What is the process of selection?
300
A genetically determined characteristic
What is a trait?
300
This is what scientist use to sketch out their information about species
What is the "tree of life"
300
Darwin learned that the earth was much older then anyone had imagined from this book
What is Principles of Geology?
400
The trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock
What is a fossil?
400
Overproduction, Inherited Variation, the Struggle to Survive, and Successful Reproduction are ________.
What are the four parts of natural selection?
400
The human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired traits
What is selective breeding?
400
Particles of sand and dust or soil
What are sediments?
400
Darwin had begun to think that these could evolve over time
What is species?
500
A historical sequence of life indicated by fossils found in layers of the Earth's crust
What is a fossil record?
500
The population of all species are limited by _______.
What is starvation, disease, competition, and predation.
500
The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted individuals do
What is natural selection?
500
The second part of natural selection (each individual has its own combination of traits)
What is inherited variation?
500
Female bird species prefer to mate with non colorful mates