Charles Darwin joined the crew of this ship and set sail from England in 1831.
What is the H.M.S. Beagle?
100
In this process Nature provides all of the varieties and Man selects the variations that are found most useful.
What is artificial selection?
100
This type of scientist studies the fossil record and his findings help support the theory of evolution.
What is a paleontologist?
100
a change over time
what is evolution
200
Charles Darwin made many observations and collected what would become evidence of Evolution on these islands west of Ecuador.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
200
Members of each species compete for food, territory, and mates.
What is the struggle for existence?
200
This phrase means "how are living things spread out over the world."
What is the geographic distribution of living species?
200
a trait that increases an organisms ability to survive and reproduce.
What is adaptation
300
These preserved remains of ancient organisms show the history of life on Earth.
What is the fossil record or what are fossils?
300
The ability to survive and make babies.
What is fitness?
300
The prefix of this word means the same in Latin. Arms, legs, flippers, and wings are all built from the same basic bones.
What are homologous structures?
300
a different or distinct form or version of something
What is variation
400
In 1859 Charles Darwin published this controversial book concerning species diversity, natural selection and evolution.
What is On the Origin of Species?
400
Each living species has descended, with changes, from other species over time.
What is the principle of descent with modification?
400
when all members of a species disappear from earth
What is extinction
500
This French naturalist believed that acquired traits could be inherited. He thought that if someone worked out and got really buff then his offspring would inherit big muscles too.
Who was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
500
Over time this mechanism of evolution causes changes in the inherited characteristics of a population. These changes cause an increase in a species' fitness in its environment. This term is closely related to survival of the fittest.
What is natural selection?
500
the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their enviroment