Charles Darwin
Evolution
Adaptations
Natural Selection
Vocabulary
100
Where was Charles Darwin from?
What is England?
100
True or False:  humans continue to evolve, but other animals have stopped evolving.


What is False?
100
Name for a characteristic of an organism
What is trait?
100
Natural Selection has also been called this
What is survival of the fittest?
100
A species that no longer exists is said to be this
What is extinct?
200
What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on?
What is The Beagle?
200
Name for an ancient organism the shares traits with those alive today
What is a common ancestor?  
200
Failure to adapt results in this
What is extinction?
200
Parents pass their traits on to these
What are offspring?
200
differences in traits within a species
What are variations?
300
What island group did Charles Darwin travel to?
What is The Galapagos Islands?
300
a structure on the body with no apparent function
what is a vestigial structure?
300
a gecko's ability to change color to blend in with it's environment is a trait called this
what is camouflage?
300
Who is credited with discovering the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
300
The change in heritable traits in a species over time
What is evolution?
400
The name of the book Darwin wrote that introduced his theory of evolution?
What is Origin of the Species?
400
Ancient imprints of organisms in these gave clues to scientists about evolution
What are fossils?
400
This is the term for the change in DNA that results in a change in an organism
What is a mutation?
400
This is the name of the condition in which an animal has little or no pigment
What is albino?  (albinoism)
400
The term meaning variety of life forms
What is biodiversity?
500
Survival of the fittest a pseudonym for it.
What is Natural Selection?
500
virus is to vaccine as 

bacteria is to this

what is an antibiotic?
500
The term for all of the different traits that exist within a species
What is genetic variation?
500
Why can't a horse produce an offspring with a cow?
What is they are not the same species?
500
body structures that are similar between species and have similar functions
What are homologous structures?
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