Animals
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100
This animal has a skin flap to keep an egg warm and perfectly shares the care of its young with its mate.
What is the penguin?
100
This is the idea that the fittest survive and pass along their traits to their offspring.
What is natural selection?
100
These are the remains or traces of plants and animals that are found in rocks.
What are fossils?
100
The scientific study of the remains of the past.
What is archaeology?
100
An unusual, small, yellow star that provides the perfect amount of energy for life on earth.
What is the sun?
200
This fast-moving African mammal would burn up its brain while running if not for a specially designed cooling system.
What is the gazelle?
200
This insect makes the queen's next using its own workers.
What is the army ant?
200
The method using the decay rate of radioactive material to date objects.
What is radiometric dating?
200
The method of dating assumes that you know specifics about the original material.
What is radiometric dating?
200
Made up of a sun, eight planets and their moons, and thousands of asteroids.
What is the solar system?
300
This animal's beak is designed with a pad of spongy tissue that acts as a shock absorber.
What is a woodpecker?
300
This insect, no matter the weather, keeps its home at 64 degrees.
What is the termite?
300
The idea that continental plates can move.
What is the theory of continental drift?
300
A possible defense mechanism where an animal is designed to look like something else.
What is mimicry?
300
The place where Darwin noticed the adaptability and variations within animal species.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
400
This mammal emits sounds up to 20 to 30 times a second to locate flying insects.
What is a bat?
400
This insect uses very specific dances to communicate.
What is the bee?
400
The imaginary column of rock believed to show various stages of fossilized life.
What is the standard geological column?
400
Refers to bones paleontologist label as from the line of man.
What is hominid?
400
This evolutionary theory states that occasionally an animal births a totally new creature.
What is the hopeful monster theory?
500
This Australian bird uses her tongue to tell if her nest temperature has changed 1/10th of a degree.
What is a mallee fowl?
500
The relationship between two creatures which makes them mutually dependent upon each other to sustain life.
What is the definition of symbiotic?
500
The layer of rock thought to have been laid down at the same time.
What is strata?
500
Similar structures or features of a plant or animal.
What is the definition of homologous?
500
A stained human skull and filed ape jaw used to support evolution but shown to be a hoax.
What is Piltdown man?
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