Fossil Record
Natural Selection
Evidence for Evolution
Noteworthy Things
Evolution and Practical Applications
100
The oldest fossils are found here.
What is the deepest rock layer?
100
The survival of better adapted organisms that pass their traits on to their offspring from generation to generation.
What is natural selection?
100
Preserved remains of a once living organism.
What is fossilis?
100

After 1850, dark peppered moths became more abundant than pale peppered moths. Which of the following factors influenced this change?

Industrialization

Tree trunk color

Moth-eating birds 

100
Why must agricultural scientists strive to develop new techniques for formulating pesticides?
To keep up with rapid evolving insects that may produce a resistance to pesticides.
200
Dating fossils based on their location within the rock layers
What is relative dating?
200
An evolutionary modification that improves the chances of an organism to survive and reproduce in the environment successfully.
What is adaptation?
200
Type of rock that creates fossils
What are sedimentary rock?
200
These structures were once useful to an organism, but are no longer useful and still are present.
What is a vestigial structure?
200
Microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses are particularly dangerous because why?
They can rapidly evolve.
300
The calendar of the history of Earth
What is the Geological Time Scale?
300
A difference in a trait.
What is variation?
300
A more accurate way to determine the age of fossils. Each of this has a distinct half-life.
What is Absolute dating?
300
These geological events and formations can cause speciation.
What are canyons, earthquakes, glaciers, lakes, oceans, mountains, rivers, islands?
300
In selective breeding and artificial selection humans control the outcomes, what moves the direction of natural selection?
What are environmental changes and mutations?
400
The four geologic eras, oldest to youngest.
What are Precambrian time, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic.
400
Explain why species have the capability to reproduce more offspring than can survive?
Producing more offspring increases the chances of the favorable traits to be passed on to the next generation. The more offspring survive, the more likelihood the traits will be passed on. Less favorable traits to not get passed on because the offspring will die.
400

Fossils of Mesosaurus have been found in both South America and Africa. Mesosaurus was a freshwater reptile that existed on Earth about 250 million years ago. Which statement best explains why these freshwater Mesosaurus fossils are found today in some rock layers in both South America and Africa? 

The continents were once connected as a single landmass.

400

Because organisms living today look similar to fossils, it can be said that...

What are those organisms living today evolved from previously living animals?

400

DAILY DOUBLE: In 1889, August Weismann, a German biologist, conducted an experiment attempting to produce mice without tails. He cut the tails off adult mice and then permitted them to mate. All offspring had long tails. He repeated the experiment many times, always with the same results. This experiment helped disprove Lamarck and his concept of 

Acquired Characteristics or Use and Disuse
500
The different material that can create fossils or preserved remains
What is sedimentary rock, amber, tar, ice?
500
The five steps in natural selection, in order.
What is overproduction, competition, survival of the fittest, successful reproduction, speciation?
500
Three ways to compare organisms to show evolution
Comparative anatomy (homologous structures), Comparative embryology, Molecular evidence (DNA)
500
DAILY DOUBLE: This person came up with this theory after studying giraffes and his theory is sometimes called this. It was later disproved by this experiment.
Jean-Baptist Lamarck, Theory of acquired characteristics, Use and disuse, cutting tails off mice.
500
These are the three ways in which scientists can compare organism for evidence for evolution
What are comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, and DNA?
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