Evolution
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Evidence for Evolution
Miscellaneous
100
An explanation supported by evidence for how populations change over time.
What is evolution?
100
The name of the islands where Darwin studied and gathered his evidence on Natural Selection using his research on the island finches.
What are The Galapagos Islands?
100
The three examples of adaptation
What is behavioral, structural, and physiological adaptation?
100
The hip bones of a dolphin and the tailbone of a human
What are Vestigial Structures?
100
When a breeding population can no longer interbreed with the previous generation, this has occurred.
What is speciation?
200
The father of Evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
The variety of dog and cat breeds that we have today are a product of _________ _____________.
What is Artificial Breeding (Selective Breeding)
200
A variation in an organism that helps it survive
What is Adaptation?
200
The bones in a human arm and whale flipper are similar in their structure but have different functions
What are homologous structures?
200
How old paleontologist think the Earth is.
What is 4600 million years old?
300
The scientist that theorized that organisms could evolve within their lifetime without the need to pass on their genes to the next generation.
Who is Lamarck?
300
What trait changed with Darwin's finches due to a change in food source and environment?
What are beaks?
300
The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is Fitness?
300
Body parts that share a common function but have a different structure
What is an analogous structure?
300
Which fossil is the youngest and which is the oldest?
What is fern for the youngest? What is trilobite for the oldest?
400
Evolution can only occur is this is involved
What is variation?
400
The process by which organisms survive if they adapt to their environment.
What is Natural Selection?
400
An organism imitates an animal
What is Mimicry?
400
In embryology, the embryos are very similar to each other due to a....
What is a common ancestor?
400
The first types of organisms that lived on Earth
What are Archae Bacteria?
500
Occurs when there is a change on a population of breeding organisms.
What is Evolution?
500
A little child catches a fly and pulls its wings off. The fly actually lives a better life, but does not pass its lack of wings on to its offspring because the loss of wings is an _________ Trait.
What is an Acquired Trait?
500
The venom of the black mamba snake is an example of a type of adaptaion
What is an example of Physiological Adaptation?
500
In early embryonic development, vertebrates have these structure in common.
What are tails and gills
500
The era we are currently living in.
What is the Cenozoic?