Fossils
Natural Selection
Evolve
Need to know
100
What type of rock do fossils form in?
What is sedimentary?
100
What was significant about the finches on the islands?
finches had different beaks for different food
100
gradual change in species over time
What is evolution?
100
helpful traits accumulate in members of the species over generations
What is natural selection?
200
the law that says older rocks on the bottom
What is law of superposition?
200
hypothesized that animals came from the mainland to the Galapagos Islands
Who is Charles Darwin
200
a trait or chacteristic that helps an organism survive
What is adaptation?
200
differences in members of the same species
What is variation?
300
the preserved remains or traces of an organism
What are fossils?
300
type of camouflage when an organism imitates another to blend in
What is mimicry?
300
a permanent change in the Dna
What is a mutation?
300
creating more offspring than can survive
What is overproduction?
400
no longer has living species
What is extinct?
400
when an organism's color is broken up with a pattern
What is the disruptive coloration?
400
99%
What is percent of organisms that are extinct
400
Insects populations changed because of pollution
What is peppered moths of Manchester?
500
Draw layers with a specimen changing over time
Answers will be sketched
500
List an example of all three types of camouflage.
answers vary
500
adaptations to live in the desert
What is light colored skin, scales, little need for water, mouth parts to eat cacti? (Answers will vary)
500
Factors affecting natural selection
overproduction, variation, competition, and environmental change
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