What's Science?
Scientific Method
Important People
Natural Selection
Evolutionary Mechanisms
100

This is how we describe the world around us, usually by the things we see.

What are through observations?

100

The method used to generate all of science is called this.

What is the scientific method?

100

The first person to observe and write about animals from all over the world while traveling on the HMS Beagle and to come up with the concept of natural selection.

Who is Charles Darwin?

100

The change over time is called this.

What is evolution?

100

This is an example of what evolutionary mechanism.

A group of birds was flying one day when a huge storm killed many of them. There were fewer survivors left but they continued to reproduce.

What is genetic drift?

Bottleneck effect.

200

Experiments must be able to be done many times.

What is repeatable?

200

This is the first part of the scientific process.

What is to make an observation?

200

This man prompted Darwin to actually publish his findings from the Galapagos because he himself had the same ideas.

Who is Wallace?
200

'Survival of the fittest' is the common saying referring to this scientific term.

What is natural selection?

200

When there is an alteration in alleles or genomes of individuals it is called this.

What is mutation?

300

This is the purpose of science.

What is to describe the world and how it works?

300

This is observing something specific then making a general statement.

What is inductive reasoning?

300

He was the first to recognize diversity.

Who is Plato?

300
These are Darwin's four postulates.


In order.

What is 

1) Variability

2) Heritability

3) More offspring survive than die

4) Natural selection

300

This is the only way to introduce new alleles in a species.

What is a mutation?

400

This is a trustworthy interpretation of experiments.

What is a key aspect of science?

400

These are commonly misused words in science.

What are fact, law, theory, and hypothesis?


(Know the difference!)

400
They believed that physical experiences could be passed down through the law of acquired inheritance.

Who is Lamark?

400

These are Darwin's four postulates in order.

What is

1) Variability

2) Heritability

3) Survivability

4) Natural Selection

400

This specific type of evolutionary mechanism leads to lower genetic variation/diversity.

What is a bottle neck?

Example: Cheetahs from lecture.

500

This is the purpose of science.

What is, to seek increasingly accurate natural descriptions of the natural world?

500

This is what we don't say science determines.

What is proof or truth.

500

He believed that all things had ordered complexity.

Who is Aristotle?

500

This is the book Charles Darwin published his idea of natural selection and evolution.

What is called The Origin of Species?
500

Darwin's finches are a perfect example of this evolutionary mechanism.

What is the founder effect?

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