Evolution
Darwin came up with his _________ of evolution after observing wildlife in the Galapagos Islands.
What is a theory?
Operation cat drop occured in this country.
What is Borneo?
This is a a tree-like branching diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships and shared characteristics between different groups of organisms.
What is a cladogram?
Mutations are random and _________ events.
What is random?
an animal having a back bone or spinal column is called this.
What is a vertebrate?
This is the process whereby traits that give an animal an advantage become more common overtime (for example, finches with bigger beaks)
What is natural selection?
This tropical disease was the reason why Borneo was sprayed with a DDT.
What is malaria?
A T Rex tastes most like this type of meat.
What is chicken?
Mutations can be described as 'a copying _______'
What is an error?
This is a word to describe any continuous line of descent; those organisms connected by heredity from ancestor to descendent.
What is a lineage?
It is called an _______ when natural selection helps animals change to better survive in their environment.
What is an adaptation?
DDT is known as an __________.
What is an insecticide?
A T Rex is closest (most similar) to this organism on a cladogram.
What is a parrot?
Which mutation helped the rock pocket mouse adapt to the lava rock in the desert?
What is black fur?
This is words describes an animal that typically walks on two legs.
What is bipedal?
This is the phrase that describes how organisms live long enough to reproduce and pass on their genes: "Survival of __________"
What is survival of the 'fittest'
Not enough cats led to an ________________ of rats.
What is an overpopulation?
Every living thing on earth shares this: a ______ ancestor.
What is a common ancestor?
A mutation is a change in the chemical _______ in our DNA
Letters/Alphabet
an egg with a fluid-filled sac that cushions and protects the developing embryo
What is an amniotic egg?
What is 1000 years?
An overpopulation of rats in Borneo led to this deadly disease.
What is the plague?
This feature is shared between a T Rex and a Parrot (hint: think about how it gets around)
What is bipedal?
What are blue eyes?
an animal having four limbs for terrestrial locomotion.
What is a tetrapod?