Vocab
a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
What is camouflage?
In a dark environment, one mouse has white fur, one mouse has brown fur.
What is a mouse with brown fur?
The theory of Natural Selection
The number of apex predators at 6 years
0
a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
What is a mutation?
In a beach environment, there is a salt tolerant plant, and a freshwater plant.
What is a salt tolerant plant?
Manually changing traits by selecting specific features for organisms to pass on
producing far more offspring than can possibly survive
3
a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
What is an adaptation?
In the rainforest, there is a monkey that can climb, and one that can't climb.
What is the monkey that can climb?
The length of Charles Darwin's voyage
What is five years
any difference of individuals within the same species
what is variation?
the number of basic creatures at 1 year
1
everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
What is an environment?
In the tundra, there is a rat that lives in the trees, and a rat that burrows.
What is a rat that burrows?
The name of the person who co-wrote Darwin's book
Alfred Russel Wallace
some variations make certain individuals better adapted to their environment. Those individuals are more likely to survive and reproduce.
what is selection?
the number of enhanced creatures at 5 years
3
a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
What is a histogram?
In a desert, one bunny has large ears, the other does not.
What is the bunny with large ears?
The name of the book that Darwin published
On the Origin of Species
when a group within a species separates from other members of its species and develops its own unique characteristics
what is speciation
which of these populations are stable over the 10 years?
none