The Origin of the Universe
Origins: How Life Began
Darwin's Influences
Evidence for Evolution
Natural Selection
100
13.7 billion years ago, the universe began with this event... Bazinga!!
What is the Big Bang?
100
Where scientists believe most of Earth's carbon came from.
What are meteorites?
100
The scientist who brought forth the theory of evolution by acquired traits.
Who is Lamarck?
100
The story of whale evolution, for example.
What is fossil evidence?
100
One of the scientists who designed the theory of 'Natural Selection'.
Who is Charles Darwin (Alfred Russell Wallace)?
200
The age of the Earth.
What is 4.5 billion years?
200
Of the following gases- oxygen, methane, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide- the one not found in early Earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200
Observing overcrowded London, this man showed Darwin the struggle for existence and overproduction.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
200
When chimpanzees and humans have similar hemoglobin...one of the evidences of evolution.
What is biochemical similarity?
200
The theory that living things change over long periods of time.
What is evolution?
300
The age of the oldest known fossils.
What is 3.8 billion years?
300
Bacteria, living in caves, that resemble human mucus.
What are 'snottites'?
300
These two geologists convinced Darwin that natural processes take a very, very long time.
Who are Hutton and Lyell?
300
The human appendix, wisdom teeth, snake legs and whale hip bones are examples of this support for the theory of evolution.
What are vestigial structures?
300
Tiger's stripes, elephant tusks, and human intelligence, for example.
What are adaptations?
400
Penzias and Wilson found this while trying to remove the static from satellite communications in the 1960's.
What is cosmic background radiation (microwaves)?
400
The scientist who, in 1954, assembled a contraption that showed how amino acids may form from gases in Earth's atmosphere.
Who is Stanley Miller?
400
A rancher mating the largest bull with the largest cow, would be an example of this.
What is artificial selection?
400
The forelimb of humans, bats, whales, cats, and alligators, for example.
What are homologous structures?
400
Two male peacocks spread their tail feathers and strut in front a female peahen.
What is competition?
500
The 'baby picture' of the early universe that NASA took using its satellite in 2001.
What is WMAP?
500
These could possibly be very similar to the first forms of life on Earth.
What are stromatolites?
500
A giraffe, stretching to get the best leaves from a tree, will pass the new longer neck adaptation to its offspring.
What is acquired traits?
500
The wings of bats and butterflies, for example.
What are analogous structures?
500
The theory that states that all living things on Earth have a common ancestor.
What is 'Common Descent'?
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