Fossil Record
What can the Fossil record show us
Can tell us how old things are relative to other fossils
What did Charles Darwin write about
Wrote On The Origin of Species
What is the main phrase of natural selection
Survival of the Fittest
Can anything become a fossil
Not everything makes a good fossil
What Boat did he study the Galapagos Islands on
HMS Beagle
Within every population exists ______
Variation
Can every environment make something a fossil
Not every environment is good for fossils
What is Charles Darwin credited with
Is credited with the theory of natural selection as the primary way we explain how evolution occurs
What are positive variations called
Beneficial (positive) variations are called adaptations
What could make a gap in the fossil record
Not a good environment or not enough of the organism
What Organisms did he study at the Golapogose
Iguanas and Birds
True OR False
More offspring will show the beneficial adaptation in the following generations
True
What could show the environment the organism lived in
Features that are only found on animals in that habitat
What gave him the idea of the Theory of Evolution
He was greatly influenced by his trip to the
Galapagos Islands off the coast of S. America
Individuals with beneficial adaptations live
Individuals with beneficial adaptations live longer and therefore produce more offspring