Scientists
His boat was the HMS Beagle.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is the main animal that Charles Darwin studied here.
What are finches?
Explantation for a natural event based on observations.
What is a theory?
This shows what organisms used to look like and how they have evolved from prehistoric times.
What is a fossil record?
This scientist came up with uniformitarianism.
Who is Charles Lyell?
This was the other scientist that studied on the Galapagos Islands.
Who is John Gould?
All organisms on Earth have descended from a common ancestor.
What is the Theory of Evolution?
Structures that are similar on the inside but look different on the outside.
What is comparative anatomy?
This scientist came up with use and disuse.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
This is the climate of the Galapagos.
The measures of how beneficial a trait is to the next generation.
What is fitness?
Early stage in organisms development, used to study and compare organisms.
What is Comparative Embryology?
This scientist declared that geological processes are still shaping the Earth today.
Who is James Hutton?
What are Mockingbirds and Tortoises?
A trait shaped by natural selection that allows an organism to reproduce effectively.
What is an adaptation?
Ancient organisms share amino acid sequences or proteins with modern organisms.
What is comparative biochemistry?
This scientist declared that people are being born faster than they are dying.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
This natural disaster formed the islands.
What are volcanoes?
One organism evolves to resemble another species.
What is mimicry?
Study of distribution of plants and animals around the world.
What is Biogeography?