Natural Selection
Traits
Math
Rocks
Vocab
100
What is Charles Darwin the father of?
He is the father of evolution.
100
What is it called when your parents pass traits on to you?
Heredity.
100
If blue has 10% of their population live and red has 20% survive, and green has 30% survive. Which color is the fittest?
Green
100
A straight line on the geological column means that the piece underneath it is touching it or not?
Touching
100
What is a Niche?
Everything that an organism does and needs within its habitat is its Niche.
200
Charles Darwin wrote what book?
Origin of Species
200
What is a permanent change in genetic material?
Mutation
200
If blue has 10% of their population live and red has 20% survive, and green has 30% survive. Which color is the least fit?
Blue
200
A squiggly line on the geological column means that the piece underneath it is touching it or not?
Not touching
200
What is a common ancestor?
When a species forms two new species due to different adaptations for its environment it becomes a common ancestor.
300
In Natural selection who survives?
The fittest
300
What must you do in order to have evolution?
Have offspring
300
If you start with 50 people and 12 survive what is your surviving percentage?
24%
300
The rock at the very bottom of a geological column fossils are the ____________?
Oldest
300
What contributes to natural selection?
Predation, habitat change, reproduction, and food supply are all factors contributing to Natural selection.
400
What does it mean to be fit?
To survive and reproduce.
400
What is variation?
Variation is having different traits. Example red hair, blonde hair, brown hair. Although you must be the same species.
400
If you have 50 people and 8 survive what is the percent of people that died?
84%
400
Radiometric dating measures what?
The amount of mass lost.
400
Give an example of Microevolution
A species of bird has obtained the variation of webbed feet, this is an example of microevolution.
500
How is natural selection different than artificial selection?
Natural selection does not require humans.
500
Can you evolve?
No.
500
What is 9+10?
21
500
Who came up with radiometric dating?
Einstein and Rutherford.
500
How far back can radiometric dating go?
550 million years
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