Evidence of Evolution
3.c,4.c,4.e,
Fossils
3.c, 4.c, 4.e
Natural Selection
3.a, 3.b
Adaptations
3.a, 3.e
Extreme Habitats
3.a, 3.b
100
The slow movement of plates reveals similar fossils all over the Earth.
What is Continental Drift or Plate tectonics?
100
Naturally preserved remains, imprints, or traces of organisms that lived long ago.
What are fossils?
100
This British naturalist developed the theory of evolution through natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
The large nose or proboscis on an Elephant Seal is an example of this.
What is a structural adaptation?
100
This type of scientist studies the natural world on the Galapagos Islands.
What is a naturalist?
200
Like the pelvis in the whale, these structures have no function in their present day form.
What are vestigial structures?
200
The process that preserved most tree and bone fossils when minerals seep into the cells and crystallize.
What is permineralization?
200
According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, these individuals will most likely reproduce and pass on the genes and traits.
What are individuals with traits better suited to the environment? OR What are the strongest and more dominant individuals in a population?
200
This happens when a species of animals is unable to adapt to a changing environment.
What is die and possible extinction?
200
These slow moving reptiles had different shaped bodies on the different Islands.
What is Tortoise?
300
The parts of organisms that are similar in structure and show a close evolutionary link.
What are homologous structures?
300
Type of fossil that is an imprint-like from a shell.
What is a mold fossil?
300
13 different species of this bird were observed on the islands visited by Darwin.
What are finches?
300
This behavioral adaptation of the Elephant Seal allows it to escape predators and catch fish where not many other marine animals hunt.
What is diving very deep in the ocean?
300
Darwin thought that the various species of animals and plants that survived the harsh environments because of this.
What is genetic variation in a species?
400
Wings of birds and insects are examples of this type of structure
What are analogous structures?
400
All known fossils and their placement in the formation of rocks and position in time.
What is the Fossil Record?
400
Darwin thought that the different traits in the animals allowed them to survive on the different Islands.
What is genetic variation?
400
The long ears of a desert rabbit are examples of this type of adaptation.
What is structural adaptation?
400
When individuals in species cannot change in time to adapt to its environmental changes, this will happen.
What are the individuals will continue to die and eventually become extinct?
500
In undisturbed layers of rock, this is where you find the oldest fossils
What is the bottom layer or lower layers of rock?
500
Type of rock that most fossils are found in.
What is Sedimentary rock?
500
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection included this important rule.
What are the traits that are best suited for the environment are most likely able to survive and pass on their genes (traits) to the offspring?
500
Scienctists agee that this is most likely the cause for the great variety of plants and animals that have live on Earth throughout Earth's History.
What is natural selction?
500
The isolation of the various Islands is an example of this.
What is geographic isolation?
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