Evolution
He wrote the book entitled "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."
Who is Charles Darwin?
An association of living organisms and their physical environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
Unofficial taxonomy groups that often split Kingdom Animalia into two groups.
What are Vertebrates and Invertebrates?
Darwin tried to use his observations of this species types on this island to support is theory of natural selection.
What are the Finches on the Galapagos Islands?
The energy consumption relationship within an ecosystem, also known as a food chain.
What are Trophic levels?
The phylum of a whole group of creatures called "sponges".
What is Porifera?
The unconfirmed hypothesis that explains the idea of one organism becoming another with the adding of information to its genetic code.
What is Macroevolution?
A specific form of symbiosis in which two or more organisms live in a mutually beneficial relationship.
What is Mutualism?
Dividing an organism into two identical halves by any longitudinal cut through its center.
What is Radial symmetry?
What paleontologists call the representation of Charles Wescott's discovery of the fossil representatives from every major phylum that exists in our classification scheme in the "Burgess Shale".
What is The Cambrian Explosion?
Vitally important organisms in an ecosystem that take care of the energy that is "lost" between trophic levels (they eat the part of the organisms that consumers don't eat).
What are Decomposers?
Members of the phylum Cnidaria have these small capsules that contain a toxin which is injected into prey or predators.
What are Nematocysts?
The scientific name of the creature that is alleged to be a transitional form between ape and man.
What is Australopithecus afarensis?
One of the principal gases involved in the greenhouse effect and has the task of keeping the earth hospitable for life.
What is Carbon dioxide?
The structure of an Annelid that aids in reproduction and helps to distinguish the head from its tail.
What is the Clitellum?