Members of the same species are able to this successfully.
What is reproduce?
100
An extinction event 65.5 million years ago wiped out all of this successful group, except the line that evolved into modern birds.
What are dinosaurs?
100
Producing more offspring than will survive to reproduce.
What is overproduction?
100
Fossils are most likely to be found in this kind of rock.
What is sedimentary?
200
The islands where Darwin made observations including of finches that served as a basis for his theory.
What are the Galapagos?
200
The first part of the scientific name of a species is this name of the group the species belongs to.
What is the Genus name.
200
The first time period of the paleozoic, from about 485 to 540 million years ago, known for an "explosion" of forms of animal life that appeared in the oceans.
What is Cambrian?
200
Energy resources and reproductive resources are two areas of this phenomenon that direct evolution.
What is competition?
200
The organism-shaped hole left where rock formed around an organism that may or may not also be preserved.
What is a mold?
300
The title of Darwin's book detailing his ideas about evolution by natural selection.
What is "On the Origin of Species"?
300
Approximately 99.0% of all species are now this.
What is extinct.
300
The most recent supercontinent, which began to break up about 100 million years ago.
What is Pangea.
300
Random mutations of DNA as well as recombination that occurs during sexual reproduction are the source of it.
What is variation?
300
Fossil evidence of the existence of an organism, other than than the body of the organism itself, such as footprints and burrows.
What is a trace fossil?
400
Darwin dedicated a great deal of his time after his voyage studying the life cycles of these marine molluscs.
What are barnacles?
400
Bacteria, archaea and the eukaryotes make up these three major divisions of life on Earth.
What are Domains?
400
The first of these four-legged animals came onto land about 350 to 400 million years ago.
What are tetrapods?
400
Variations that favor some organisms over others.
What are adaptions?
400
A fossil that forms when minerals enter the cavity that was left when a buried organism's body decomposed.
What is a cast?
500
The maiden name of Darwin's wife, of pottery fame.
Who is Emma Wedgewood?
500
The term describing a grouping of species all descending from a single ancestral species.
What is "monophyletic"
500
The forests that fossilized into vast coal deposits lived during this time period.
What is the carboniferous?
500
Though he lived during Darwin's time he and this monk who developed the science of genetics, which explains the mechanism of inheritance which makes evolution possible, never met.