Fossil Evidence
The definition of a fossil.
What are the preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past?
This term describes the differences in DNA among individuals within a species.
What is genetic variation/diversity?
The process in which individuals with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
The term for when a species no longer exists anywhere on Earth?
What is extinction?
T/F: A theory can become a law
What is false?
The process by which species change over time through adaptations?
What is evolution?
How does having different traits in a group of animals help them survive when their environment changes?
What is it gives them a variety of traits that might help them adapt and survive?
In your own words, describe how natural selection leads to the evolution of species over time.
It promotes the survival and reproduction of individuals with advantageous traits.
List two factors that could lead to a species becoming extinct.
What are habitat loss and climate change?
T/F: A theory can be modified when new evidence is discovered.
What is true?
How do fossils provide evidence for the theory of evolution by showing changes in species over time?
What is by displaying transitional forms that illustrate gradual changes?
In what ways can environmental factors, like climate change, influence genetic variation in a population?
What is by creating new challenges that select for different traits?
How do organisms with advantageous traits contribute to the overall evolution of their species?
What is they pass on their favorable traits to future generations?
How can changes in the environment, such as habitat loss, contribute to the extinction of a species?
What is they reduce the availability of resources necessary for survival?
The domain that humans are in. (Archaea, Bacteria, or Eukarya)
What is Eukarya?
The significance of transitional fossils in understanding evolution.
What is they show the gradual changes between species over time?
How can genetic variation affect a species' chances of survival in an environment that is rapidly changing?
What is it increases the likelihood that some individuals will have traits suited for the new conditions?
What role does competition for resources play in the process of natural selection?
What is it drives the selection of traits that enhance survival and reproduction?
Give one historical example of a species that went extinct because it could not adapt to environmental changes.
What is the woolly mammoth?
The scientific name for a gray wolf is Canis lupus. Which pair of terms is the two divisions in the classification system that this name indicates?
What is genus and species?
How can environmental changes lead to evolution?
What is they create new challenges that select for different traits?
Why is it important for a population to have a mix of different traits?
What is it helps the population be more resilient to changes and challenges in their environment?
Discuss a well-known example of natural selection, such as the peppered moth, and explain its significance.
What is the peppered moth example shows how environmental changes can influence survival based on coloration?
What is the impact of human activities, like deforestation and pollution, on current extinction rates?
What is they significantly increase extinction rates, often faster than natural processes?
The definition of empirical evidence.
What is proof you can see, measure, or test?