Geologic Time
The larges measure of geologic time?
Eon
This is the geographic location where Darwin studied birds and tortoises.
Galapagos Islands
An ancient animal or plant that has ben mineralized into sedimentary rock.
fossil
All animals of a species die
extinction
Name the ship of Darwin's 5 yr voyage.
HMS Beagle
This is the name of the chart that divides Earth's history into different time units.
Geologic Time Scale
Though he was not the first to come up with the idea, history has credited with this theory.
Evolution
A giant shark that lived 80 million years ago, with the jaws the size of a car and teeth 6 inches big.
Megalodon
This helps an organism avoid being eaten by blending into the environment.
Camouflage
A manatee and a whale have thumbs and finger bones inside their flippers. This suggests what about their ancestors?
The ancestors were once land organisms.
This is what the law of superposition states.
That old rocks are under new rocks
This is what Darwin called the slight differences among members of a species, like light fur or dark fur on rock pocket mice.
Variations
An ancient spiral shelled squid from the Paleozoic.
ammonite
The ability for an organism to survive until adulthood to make offspring, often with favorable traits.
Survival of the Fittest
What is the age of the mammals called?
Cenozoic Era
This is how old something is compared to something else.
Relative Age
This is the name of the process by which populations of organisms with variations that help them survive live longer, compete better, and reproduce more.
Natural Selection
This Cambrian fossil has a relative of modern day horseshoe crabs.
trilobite
The fact that caterpillars resemble snakes allows them to avoid being eaten by predators. This is an example of...
Mimicry
Draw the transition from a water based lungfish to an amphibian to a land dwelling lizard.
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Before Darwin in 1850's, how old was the Earth expected to be?
6,000 years
This is the characteristic of a species that enables the species to survive its environment
Adaptation
Name four animals that lived in the Mesozoic Era.
crocodiles, lizards, dinosaurs, turtles, some birds, beetles, flies, fish
Name the two scientists that came up with Natural Selection theory in the 1850's.
Darwin and Wallace
Name the modern day feathered relatives of the dinosaurs.
birds