Darwin's Animals
Animal that is mix of marsupial and a duck! Oh and mammal!
Platypus
What kind of family did Darwin grow up in? Rich or poor?
Very rich
True or false- Horses did not have typical hard hooves in prehistoric times
true
This is what fossils are made up of:
Sediment
Thinking of a canyon, is the bottom area the oldest or newest part formed?
Oldest
What animal did Darwin adopt on his travels? Psst: animal lives forever (not really but long time)
Tortoise
Before Darwin people thought Earth was this many years old:
a. 1000 years
b. one million years
c. 6 thousand years old
6 thousand years old
Give an example of your own of natural selection
Answers will vary, teacher listens to student answer
Scientists gather tons of information by informing something called the Fossil ------.
Record
Graduation of evolution suspects that evolution occurs
Slowly of quickly?
Slowly
What animals did Darwin study that had different evolved beaks for eating different types of foods?
Finches
How did Darwin get from place to place when he traveled the world?
By boat (named The Beagle)
The three reasons for natural selection over: over reproduction (have a lot of offspring), inheritance and lastly ----------.
Competition
When a fossil is changed to rock they are called these kinds of fossils-----.
a. sediment
b. clay
c. petrified
Petrified
Define a MASS EXTINCTION:
Student's answers will vary
True or false- Darwin was amazed by the different animals he saw on Galapagos Islands:
True
Darwin named this after theorizing "the survival of the fittest"
NATURAL ---------------------
Selection
a trait that helps animals exist and reproduce that they developed (i.e. Curly water repellent coat in a Chesapeake Bay Retriever)-
An Adaptation
When a fossil is formed and there is a space in the sediment, like a missing piece is this a MOLD or is it a CAST?
A mold
Name an extinct animal
Student's answers will vary
What animal did Darwin see on the Galaposgos who had different claws than the ones in South America?
Iguanas
Darwin used these to help with his discoveries:
Psst: you find them buried in earth
Fossils
What do the following animals have in commom:
Salamander
Chicken
Racoon
Koi fish
Backbone
Of the following objects which one CANNOT form a fossil?
rock, bird feather, dinosaur
rock
Similar sturctures that animals inheritated from an ancestor (i.e a pouch, sharp claws, a curved beak) are called:
HINT: starts with a H
Homologous structures.