Evolution
Natural Selection
Miscellaneous
Evidence for Evolution
Darwin
100

The estimated age of planet Earth

What is 4.6 billion years old ? 

100
The survival and reproduction of the organisms that are genetically best fit for their environment
What is the definition of Natural Selection?
100

The average difference in age between parent and offspring

What is generation time ?

100
The hip bones of a dolphin and the tailbone of a human
What are Vestigial Structures?
100

Who is the father of Evolution?

Who is Charles Darwin?

200
A theory (explanation) supported by evidence for how populations change over time
What is evolution?
200

Diversity among species is referred to as ?

What is genetic variation ?

200

The shorter the generation time the _______ rate at which a species can evolve

What is faster ?

200

Body parts that share a common structure but have a different function

What are homologous structures?

200
The name of the islands where Darwin studied and gathered his evidence on Natural Selection
What are The Galapagos Islands?
300

The traits that evolve over time are called

What are inherited traits ? 
300

Key to natural selection 

What is successful reproduction ? 
300
An organism matches its surroundings in order to hide
What is Camouflage?
300

Body parts that share a common function but have a different structure

What is an analogous structure?

300

The organisms / features studied on the Galapagos Islands that are closely related to Darwin's natural selection theory

What are finches / finch beaks ? 

400

Evolution can only occur is this is involved

What is Natural Selection?

400
More members of a species are born than will make it to maturity 

What is overproduction? 

400
A variation in an organism that helps it survive
What is Adaptation?
400
The more recent the ________ the more closely related organisms are considered. 

What is common ancestor?

400

What was the vessel named in which Darwin traveled the globe? 

What is the HMS Beagle ?

500

The four components of evolution 

What are Mutation, Adaptation, Natural Selection, and Extinction ? 

500

Examples of limiting factors

What are food, water, shelter, and predators ? 

500
All the evidence we use to support the theory of evolution

What are: 

  1. Fossils / Fossil Record

  2. Radiometric Dating

  3. Skeletal Similarity

  4. Comparing DNA

  5. Vestigial Structures

  6. Comparative Embryology

500

In _________, the embryos of vertebrate organisms are very similar to each other

What is embryology?

500

Lamarck said that organisms gain these throughout their lifetime and can pass them on to offspring. 

What are acquired traits?

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