Natural Selection
What are the differences between individuals that contribute to natural selection?
Variation
Darwin noticed that finches on islands with many large, hard nuts had this adaptation.
A large beak for crushing
Where do we find evidence for what extinct organisms looked like?
Fossils
He wrote On the Origin of Species
Who is Charles Darwin
What is the fight between individuals for limited resources called?
Competition
When industrial pollution darkened the trees this peppered moth trait became an adaptation.
What is dark gray color.
Similar body structures with different functions that can be evidence for a common ancestor.
What are homologous structures?
The principle that geological processes that happen now also happened in the past
What is uniformitarianism
________ producing many more offspring that can possibly survive.
Overproduction
The reason for animals/plants having a variety of different traits.
What is DNA mutations
Evidence can be found when looking into a chicken's egg, a turtles egg and a rat fetus that indicate a common ancestor.
What is embryology?
The year On the Origin of Species was published
1859
An adaptation allowing an organism to blend in with its environment.
What is camouflage
Groups of organisms share a single ______________.
What is common ancestor?
Similarities in DNA indicate _____________ between species?
A common ancestor
The individual who reasoned that if the human population grew unchecked, there wouldn't be enough living space and food for everyone.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Galapagos tortoises had different shaped _________.
What is shells.
The item that tells you how "fit" an organisms is.
How many offspring one has?
Combined evidence can be used to create what type of graphic showing evolutionary relationships?
evolutionary tree
The islands Charles Darwin collected information about similar species adapted for specific environments
What is the Galapagos?