Natural selection
Survive or _____________ to eat and drink
What is compete
After a meteorite hit the earth the dinosaurs went?
What is extinct
When an animal changes to best fit its environment
Ex: A cheetah acquires its speed to catch its fast prey
What is adaptation
A sudden change in DNA.
What is Mutation.
What is the name of this Block we are teaching
what is 11.a
If a tree is light and a factory causes the tree to turn black what would adapt to the color of the tree?
Black monkey
or a White Monkey
What is Black Monkey
The dodo has arrived on a island with no predator's so no reason to run over time they slowly became fat and over ate there wings began to shrink and could barely get a foot of the ground then came humans that hunted the dodos. Which was most likely to happen to the dodo
What is became extinct.
A normal turtle is located in the galapagos island where it would have __________ to its new environment.
What is adapted
An _____________ occurs in the dna it is so sudden that it triggers a Mutation?
What is Error
Traveled to the Galapagos islands and discovered the truth of natural selection.
What is Charles Darwin
We study dinosaur bones after they went extinct, they are buried in the ground and the older they are the deeper they are, what do we use to study the age of the fossils so old are so far down?
What is Fossil record
A bear grows fur to better adapt to the winter what type of adaptation is this?
what is physical adaptation.
Describe Mutation in one word?
What is change
A green camouflaged lizard lives near an active volcano after it erupts the land around the volcano turns black now a new predator a white snake is in the same area as the green lizard with a predator of the white snake a bald eagle which has no predator has also moved in the area which creature will go through natural selection first?
Hint: the eagle only eats snakes think about that as you answer the question
What is White snake
What is the definition of extinction in one word?
What is Death
An adaptation that forces a creature to do a certain behavior such as hibernation?
What is internal adaptation
A human buys four baby turtles to mutate into a strong turtle. What happened to there DNA to make them so strong?
Hint: ______ of the DNA makes it two times as strong.
What is Duplication
What does natural selection mean?
What is lead to new species, over long periods of time
What is the name of the Meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs?
What is Chicxulub
Example of an internal adaptation that requires you to fly?
What is Migration
What happens in the DNA to cause down syndrome? How many chromosomes are involved? This is another form of mutation.
What is 21