Evolution
A theory (explanation) supported by evidence for how populations change over time
What is evolution?
This term describes an organism that is no longer living anywhere on Earth.
What is extinction
The name of the islands where Darwin studied and gathered his evidence on Natural Selection
What are The Galapagos Islands?
The natural differences in traits found among individuals of the same species (e.g., different fur colors or beak sizes).
What is variation
What is the process or act of trying to win
Competition
This English naturalist traveled on the HMS Beagle and formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin
An organism imitates an animal
What is Mimicry?
This occurs when a species produces more offspring than the environment can support, leading to a struggle for resources.
What is overproduction (and/or competition)?
The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is fitness
A natural process of evolution in which the organisms that are best adapted to their environment survive and are able to reproduce, while those that are weak leave fewer or no offspring
What is Natural Selection?
Evolution can only occur is this is involved
What is Genetic Variety?
An organism matches its surroundings in order to hide
What is Camouflage?
An adaptation where a harmless species evolves to look, sound, or act like a dangerous or toxic species (like king snakes mimicking coral snakes).
What is mimicry?
Where are the Galapagos Islands located?
What is South America
To fill with more inhabitants than available resources can sustain
What is overpopulation?
This 1859 book by Charles Darwin changed how scientists understand the origin of species.
What is On the Origin of Species?
A variation in an organism that helps it survive?
What is Adaptation?
Often phrased as "survival of the _______," this is the process where nature selects the best-adapted organisms.
What is fittest?
What ship did Charles Darwin travel on?
What is the HMS Beagle?
A sudden, apparently abnormal change or alteration in a genetically determined structure, as opposed tgo gradual evolutionary change
What is a mutation?
Two different organisms are alike, they share this in their bloodline
What is a Common Ancestor?
A group of organisms that look alike and can reproduce
What is a species?
The way something changes for the better to suit something new or different
What is an adaptation?
What did Charles Darwin discover on the Galapagos Islands
What are finches and tortoises?
How were the Galapagos finches different? Explain
Beak shapes