Adaptability
DNA
Natural Selection
Change & Tech
Artifacts
100
Glasses and contact lenses were created to compensate for this human trait.
What is bad eyesight?
100
What does DNA do?
Encodes genetic information/traits to be passed on to future generations.
100
Why is natural selection considered a passive process?
It occurs on its own, you cannot force changes to it.
100
This human biological change has prompted the creation of ultrasounds, epidurals, and C-sections.
What is pregnancy?
100
Early humans created weapons such as knives, spears, and arrows to mimic this thing in nature.
What are animals' claws and fangs?
200
Humans created things such as swimming pools and air conditioning to adapt to this kind of environment.
What is hot weather?
200
What are two specific physical traits that are determined by DNA?
Hair color, eye color, body type/size
200
Why does natural selection choose some traits and not others?
It chooses the traits that are most likely to survive in that particular environment.
200
What type of technology was created to improve production speed?
The assembly line.
200
Early humans created this to have something similar to the sun's light and warmth.
What is fire?
300
In order to move from one destination to another more quickly we created this.
What are cars, airplanes, etc.?
300
What are two traits that can be determined by DNA that are not physical?
Tastebuds, mental disorders, aggression/passive, musicality, athleticism
300
What are the two types of belief systems?
Science and Faith
300
The increased use of airplanes caused humans to need to create what?
Runways, air traffic control, airport security, better radios, etc.
300
Some animals dig holes and others build dams and nests. What did humans create that is our own version of this?
What are houses?
400
With the making of vehicles humans had to compensate for problems such as these.
What is pollution, creation of roads for difficult terrain, etc.?
400
Explain the difference between a science and a faith belief system.
Science is based off of definite, observable facts. Faith is based off of things you cannot observe or prove with facts.
400
Things such as new forms of money, stock trades, and changes in how businesses work shows what kind of social change?
Economical
400
Many animals have ways to disguise themselves, whether for hiding or for stealth. What did humans create to copy this idea?
What is camo?
500
Casts, xrays, and pain medications were created to compensate for what?
Susceptibility to injury
500
Dolphins, whales, and bats use echolocation to be aware of their surroundings. What did humans make to mimic this?
Sonar
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