ECOLOGY & INTERACTIONS
NATURAL SELECTION
ORGANISMS & LIFE
SCIENTIFIC THINKING
EVOLUTION BASICS
100

Clue: The struggle between organisms for limited resources like food or space.

3x times the point value if correct!

What is COMPETITION?

100

Clue: An inherited trait that helps an organism survive in its environment.

What is ADAPTATION?

100

Clue: A developing organism formed after fertilization.

What is EMBRYO?

100

$100$200$300$400$500Clue: Data or observations used to support an idea.

What is EVIDENCE?

100

Clue: This term describes the gradual change in a species over time.

What is EVOLUTION?

200

Clue: Ways organisms affect each other and their environment.

What are INTERACTIONS?

200

Clue: The process where organisms with helpful traits reproduce more successfully.

What is NATURAL SELECTION?

200

Clue: A group of organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.

2x the point value if correct!


What is SPECIES?

200

Clue: To suggest a possible explanation that can be tested.

2x the point value if correct!

WHAT IS HYPOTHESIZE?

200

Clue: A preserved remain or trace of an organism from the past.

2x times the point value if correct!

What is FOSSIL?

300

Clue: When two species evolve in response to each other over time.

What is COEVOLUTION?

300

Clue: How well an organism survives and reproduces in its environment.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!

What is FITNESS?

300

Clue: A molecule made from genes that performs many functions in cells.

What is PROTEIN?

300

Clue: A well-tested explanation supported by many experiments.

What is THEORY?

300

Clue: The complete collection of fossils that tells us about life long ago.

What is FOSSIL RECORD?

400

Clue: The movement of genetic material from one organism or place to another.

What is TRANSFER?

400

Clue: A type of natural selection based on attracting mates.

2x times the point value if correct!

What is SEXUAL SELECTION?

400

Clue: The process where gene information is used to make proteins.

What is EXPRESSION?

400

Clue: A natural process that explains how something works.

What is MECHANISM?

400

Clue: When a species no longer exists anywhere on Earth.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!

What is EXTINCT?

500

Clue: When organisms compete and interact in ecosystems it can drive this major biological process.

What is EVOLUTION?

500

Clue: A change in DNA that may produce a new trait.

CHOOSE ANOTHER TEAM BEFORE YOU ANSWER!

What is MUTATION?

THE OTHER TEAM RECEIVES THE SAME POINTS IF YOU ARE CORRECT!

500

Clue: A theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-living bacteria.

What is ENDOSYMBIOSIS?

500

Clue: Something happening without a specific pattern or plan.

What is RANDOMLY?

500

Clue: Body structures in different organisms that are similar because they came from a common ancestor.

What is HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES?

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