Something that can be inherited through genetic characteristics... means that everyone is different!
What is variation?
Where did Charles Darwin study?
Galapagos Islands?
In natural selection, this what "selects" for or against traits of an organism.
What is the environment?
The vocab word that means change through time. The theory that existing life forms have evolved from earlier forms over long periods of time.
What is evolution?
Any trace or remains of a once-living organism that has been preserved by natural processes.
What is a fossil?
Organisms often have more ____________ than will survive.
What is offspring?
What did Darwin primarily study?
What is Finches?
Any kind of inherited trait that improves an organism's chances of survival and reproduction in a given environment.
What is an adaptation?
Animals that have certain beneficial traits will survive better over time- survival of the best adapted- nature determines who will "win"
What is natural selection?
Type of diagram that shows the relationship of organisms to their ancestors as well as common ancestry.
What is a phylogenetic tree or cladogram?
When organisms try to get their fair share of a limited amount of resources.
What is competition?
What was the name of the boat that Darwin sailed in?
What is The Beagle?
Slang term that describes how organisms that possess the best traits or adaptations for a particular environment are the ones that will successfully pass down their traits to their offspring.
What is "Survival of the Fittest?"
An explanation of events in the natural world based on observations. Unlike a scientific law, this can be falsified or changed.
What is a Scientific Theory?
A group of the same organism that occupies a specific area in a specific time.
What is a population?
The process whereby organisms that have advantages survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
What animals did Charles Darwin observe that helped lead him to his theory of evolution- and what did he notice about these animals?
What is finches beaks?
This type of dating determines the age of rocks based on the decay of radioactive elements.
What is radiometric dating?
A group of genetically similar organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
The random appearance of a new trait in an organism.
What is a mutation?
When organisms separate due to a barrier.
What is geographic isolation?