Evolution
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Evidence for Evolution
Miscellaneous
100
A theory (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 are behavioral, structural, and physiological adaptations?
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
The study of DNA and protein similarities between species provides this type of evolutionary evidence.
What is Molecular?
300
The scientist that theorized that organisms could evolve within their lifetime and then pass on those new traits 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 or Survival of the Fittest?
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 to 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 this type of adaptation.
What is Physiological?
500
In early embryonic development, vertebrates have these two structures in common.
What are Tails and Gills?
500
States that any feature that cuts across an undisturbed sequence of rocks is younger than everything it cuts.
What is the the Law of Crosscutting?