Fossils
Natural Selection
Evolution
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
100
The first land dwelling organisms
What is simple plants and fungi
100
An inherited trait that gives an organism an advantage in its particular environment
What is an adaptation
100
Among the first animals to live on land were
What is birds
100
A species making more offspring than the environment can support
What is overproduction
100
This scientist created the modern theory of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin
200
The relative age of a fossil tells you
What is the amount of radioactivity in a fossil
200
Of the several thousand eggs that a pike lays, only several dozens will live to adulthood. This is an example of
What is overproduction
200
This can lead to an adaptation
What is variation
200
The process in which species that are best suited to their environment survive and reproduce at a higher rate than other members of species
What is natural selection
200
A huge number of species dies or becomes extinct
What is mass extinction
300
According to the fossil record, the first multicellular organisms were
What is seaweed
300
Many organisms in the Galapagos Islands have evolved to become the new species with the help of
What is isolation
300
Most fossils are formed in ______ rock
What is sedimentary
300
Fossil information found in a particular location
What is fossil record
300
An earlier form of an organism from which several later forms have descended
What is an ancestor
400
During the Permian Extinction, about _______ of the species living in the ocean became extinct.
What is 90%
400
Most _____ will become more common from one generation to the next
What is varations
400
The production of new cells in the body is determined by
What is variations
400
The evolution of new species from existing species
What is specciation
400
A particular group of organisms with particular adaptations
What is selection
500
The earliest living things lived
What is in the ocean
500
No two zebras have the exact same pattern of stripes is an example of
What is variation
500
The key principles of natural selection
What is overproduction, variation, adaptation, and selection
500
A change in genetic material
What is a mutation
500
A scientist that first proposed a theory of evolution
Who is Jean Baptist de Lamarck
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