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A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
100
He wrote the book On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
Speciation often begins when a population becomes ________ from the rest.
What is separated?
100
Provides evidence about the order in which species have existed.
What is the fossil record?
100
In his book Thomas Malthus wrote that food supplies could not support a _________ __________ _________.
What is unlimited population growth?
200
A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular envornment.
What is an adaptation?
200
the main animal on the Galapagos Islands that Darwin studied.
What is the finch?
200
Female birds prefer to mate with ________ males.
What is colorful?
200
When scientist compare organisms traits much of the information support the theory that the organisms have a _______ _________.
What is a common ancestor?
200
How old scientist estimate the Earth is.
What is 4.6 billion years old?
300
A group of individuals of the same species living in the same place.
What is a population?
300
A genetically determined characteristic.
What is a trait?
300
Te formation of a new species as a result of evolution.
What is speciation?
300
The individual that is best adapted to its environment is most likely to _________ _________.
What is successfully reproduce?
300
The process called ________ only occurs when organisms that carry that gene survive to reproduce
What is selection?
400
Darwinist scientists think that all living species descended from a _________ __________.
What is a common ancestor?
400
When Darwin signed on to travel on the HMS Beagle his job was as a/an ___________.
What is a naturalist?
400
The period between the birth of one generation and the birth of the next.
What is generation time?
400
The book written by Thomas Malthus that inspired Darwin to come up with the idea of natural selection.
What is An Essay on the Principle of Population?
400
Fossils are most often found in _________ _____.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
The time period that a common ancestor from some types of hoofed mammals and whales lived.
What is between 50 million years and 70 million years?
500
How far off the coast of South America the Galapagos Islands are found.
What is 965km or 600mi?
500
the three main parts in the process of speciation.
What are Separation, Adaptation, and Division?
500
The book written by Charles Lyell that convinced Darwin that the Earth was extremely old.
What is Principles of Geology?
500
Darwin received a letter from a fellow naturalist,_______ ______ who had come to the same conclusions that Darwin had with evolution.
Who was Alfred Wallace?
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