Vocabulary
Darwin
Theories
Fossil Record
Sum It Up
100
the preserved remains of once living organisms
What are fossils?
100
Abraham Lincoln
Who was born on the same date as Charles Darwin?
100
Survival of the fittest
What is Natural Selection?
100
sedimentary rock
What is the layer of rock where fossils are generally found?
100
Burgess Shale
What is a layer of Cambrian rock that contains thousands of complex life forms?
200
Strata
What are distinct layers of rock?
200
HMS Beagle
What is the name of the ship that Charles Darwin voyaged on while developing the principles for his theory?
200
the concept of a struggle for survival
Who is Malthus?
200
a hypothetical construct of what some geologists think of all the fossil-bearing strata in the world would look like if they existed in one location
What is the geological column?
200
structural homology, to creation scientists
What is evidence of common design (for a Creator), not common ancestry?
300
The Immutability of Species
What is the idea that each individual species on the planet was specially created by God and could never fundamentally change?
300
The Origin of Species
What is the title of Darwin's book?
300
the present is the key to the past
Who is Lyell?
300
95% clams and hard shelled creatures
What organisms are the vast majority of fossils recovered?
300
study of the properties and structures of the molecules important to biology
What is molecular biology?
400
Cambrian Explosion
What is the explanation that representatives of all major animal phyla can be found in some of the lowest sedimentary rock in the geological column?
400
his wife
Who pleaded with Darwin to not publish his work, due to the devastating effect it could have on the church?
400
idea that species can adapt to changes in the environment, also established scientific theory
What is microevolution?
400
that each strata of rock was laid down individually over longer periods of time.
What is the assumption that must be made in order to interpret the geological column as evidence for macroevolution?
400
mutations
What is the main difference between Darwin's hypothesis of macroevolution and the neo-Darwinist hypothesis?
500
Structural Homology
What is the study of similar structures in different species?
500
theology, Euclid and the classics
What did Charles Darwin study while at Christ's College?
500
idea that one species can change into a radically different species over time
What is macroevolution?
500
intermediate links
What is missing from the geological record that demonstrates how one species slowly evolved into another?
500
punctuated equilribium
What explains the lack of intermediate links in the fossil record?
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