This process describes the gradual development of new types of organisms from preexisting ones over time.
What is evolution?
This is the process that creates a fossil of a mosquito trapped in amber.
What is preservation?
These are found during a very specific time period all over the world and can be used to help us date rocks/rock layers.
Index Fossils
This species is most closely related to the Chimp.
What is the Mouse?
This kingdom is the setting of the movie Frozen.
What is Arendelle?
The concept of evolution falls into this category of scientific knowledge.
What is a theory?
Defined as the study of development from fertilized egg to adult.
What is embryology?
Provide one example of something that scientists can learn from fossils?
Many different options:
family behavior, herding, predator prey relationships, climate, support of continental drift, etc.
The Pigeon has these traits.
What are Jaws, Lungs, Claws/Nails, Feathers?
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia means a fear of this.
What is long words?
This scientist, known for his studies of finches in the Galápagos Islands and groundbreaking work on natural selection, revolutionized our understanding of how species change over time.
Who is Charles Darwin
These all tend to look more similar in earlier stages but become more distinguished in later stages.
What are embryos?
What evidence supports the hypothesis that whales evolved from land-dwelling mammals?
What is comparative anatomy - homologous structures and the fossil record showing transition fossils
This trait is from the most recent common ancestor of the Lizard and Mouse.
What is Claws/Nails?
Starbucks built their first store outside of North America in this country.
Where is Japan?
These are the three main processes that form fossils.
What are petrification, impression, and preservation?
Tetrapod limb bones fall under this category of structure.
What is homologous structure?
A butterfly's wing, a bat's wing, and a bee's wing share this name.
What is analogous structures?
This species is most distantly related to the Hagfish.
What is the CHIMP?
This coffee shop was the frequent meeting place for the characters of the TV show Friends.
Where is Central Perk?
These are the four evidences for evolution.
What are Fossils, Anatomy, DNA, and Embryos?
This phenomenon, demonstrated in peppered moths during the Industrial Revolution, shows how environmental changes can drive changes in population traits over generations.
This gene's name, taken from a famous character from the early 2000s, codes for the number of digits on a tetrapod's hand.
What is Sonic the Hedgehog gene?
This species shares the most traits with the Chimp.
What is the mouse?
This specific footrace distance was inspired by a messenger’s run to Athens and officially set at this distance during the 1908 London Olympics.
What is 26.2 miles?