EVIDENCE
NATURAL SELECTION
RATE OF EVOLUTION
FOSSILS
PRIMATES
100
LIKE THE PELVIS IN THE WHALE, THESE STRUCTURES HAVE NO KNOWN FUNCTION IN PRESENT DAY
What is VESTIGIAL STRUCTURES
100
THIS BRITISH NATURALIST DEVELOPED THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION THROUGH NATURAL SELECTION
WHO IS DARWIN
100
DO SCIENTISTS AGREE OR DISGREE ON THE RATE OF EVOLUTION
What is DISAGREE
100
SCIENTISTS WHO STUDY FOSSILS
WHO ARE PALEONTOLOGISTS
100
2 ORGANISMS THAT BELONG IN THE PRIMATE GRP
WHAT ARE HUMANS, APES, MONKEYS
200
IN UNDISTURBED LAYERS OF ROCK, THIS IS WHERE YOU FIND THE OLDEST FOSSILS
What is ON THE BOTTOM LAYER
200
ACCORDING TO DARWIN'S THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION THESE ORGANISMS WILL MOST LIKELY REPRODUCE AND PASS ON GENES /TRAITS
WHAT ARE ORGANISMS WITH THE STRONGER OR MORE DESIRABLE TRAIT
200
EVOLUTION THAT IS A SLOW CHANGE OF ONE SPECIES TO ANOTHER NEW SPECIES
What is GRADUALISM
200
THIS TYPE OF ROCK CONTAINS THE MOST FOSSILS
What is SEDIMENTARY ROCK (ESP. LIMESTONE)
200
Humanlike primates that ate both meat and vegetables and walked upright on 2 feet and lived about 4- 6 million years ago
What is a hominid
300
PARTS OF ORGANISMS THAT ARE SIMILAR IN STRUCTURE AND SHOW A CLOSE EVOLUTIONARY LINK
WHAT ARE HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES
300
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS OF THE SAME SPECIES
WHAT IS VARIATION
300
RAPID EVOLUTION THAT CAN COME ABOUT BY THE MUTATION OF JUST A FEW GENES
What is PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM
300
THIS TYPE OF FOSSIL RECORD WILL EXAMINE THE ROCK LAYERS.. NEWER ROCKS ARE CLOSER TO THE TOP, OLDER ROCKS ARE IN THE LOWER LAYERS
What is RELATIVE DATING
300
"wise human"... this is considered our species
What are homo sapiens
400
THIS EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT FISH, BIRDS, AND MAMMALS HAVE A TAIL AND GILLS OR GILL SLITS IN THEIR EARLY DEVELOPMENT
WHAT IS EMBYOLOGY
400
ALLOWS AN ORGANISM TO BETTER SURVIVE IN ITS ENVIRONMENT
WHAT IS ADAPTATION
400
BACTERIA THAT IS RESISTANT TO PENICILLIN IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS TYPE OF EVOLUTION
What is PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM
400
THIS TYPE OF RECORD WILL DETERMINE THE AGE OF A ROCK BY COMPARING THE AMOUNT OF RADIOACTIVE ELEMENT IN THE ROCK
What is RADIOMETRIC DATING
400
2 characteristics that all primates share
What are opposable thumbs, binocular vision, flexible shoulders, rotating forelimbs
500
MANY PRIMATES HAVE THIS IN COMMON, THE PROTEIN IN RED BLOOD CELLS THAT CARRY THE OXYGEN. WHAT IS THIS CALLED
What is HEMOGLOBIN
500
WHERE DID DARWIN GO TO STUDY EVOLUTION AND WHAT ANIMAL WAS HE MOST KNOWN FOR STUDYING?
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. FINCHES
500
FOSSIL EVIDENCE SHOWS THIS TYPE OF EVOLUTION IN MANY PRESENT DAY ORGANISMS
What is GRADUALISM
500
2 SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF FOSSILS
WHAT ARE IMPRINTS IN ROCK, PIECE OF BONE, ORGANISM FROZEN IN ICE, ORGANISM TRAPPED IN AMBER
500
2 early grps of homo sapiens... give a detail for each
What are Neanderthals (short, heavy) and Cro-Magnon( buried dead, stone carvings, ancestors of modern humans)
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