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Vocab 1
Geology
Darwin's Voyage
Natural Selection
Vocab 2
100
define species
What is a group of organisms so similar to one another that they can reproduce and have fertile offspring?
100
This is the idea that only catastrophes shape our planet.
What is catastrophism?
100
This is the name of the ship Darwin took around the world.
What is the H.M.S. Beagle?
100
This is the process where humans decide what traits are best and breed for those traits.
What is Artificial Selection?
100
This is the measure of the ability to survive and produce more offspring than others.
What is fitness?
200
A feature that allows an organism to better survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
200
These are traces of organisms that existed in the past.
What are fossils?
200
Charles Darwin is best known for studying the organisms on this island group.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
200
This is the process by which the environment dictates what traits are best.
What is Natural Selection?
200
This is the study of comparing developing embryos.
What is embryology?
300
These are genetic leftovers or remnants of organs or structures that had a function in an early ancestor.
What is a vestigial structure?
300
This is the idea that changes to Earth take place slowly over a long period of time.
What is gradualism?
300
These are the organisms that Darwin studied while on the Galapagos Islands.
What are finches and tortoises?
300
This is the ability of a trait to be passed from down from one generation to another.
What is heritability?
300
These are features that have similar structure and genetic origin, but appear in different organisms and have different functions.
What are homologous structures?
400
These are examples of vestigial structure.
What are human wisdom teeth, ostrich wings, leg bones in whales, etc.
400
This is the idea that both major catastrophes and gradual processes shape Earth.
What is uniformitarianism?
400
Define variation.
What is the difference in the physical traits of individuals in a population?
400
I have 4 legs. I am faster than the other animals. I always win at cards?
What is a Cheetah (cheat-ah)
400
These are structures that perform a similar function but are not similar in genetic origin.
What are analogous structures?
500
This is the process of biological change by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors.
What is Evolution
500
Why are the ideas that Earth undergoes change and is billions of years old important for evolutionary theory?
B/c that means that evolution has much more time to take place.
500
What fish can you see better at night?
A Starfish
500
These are the 4 principles of Natural Selection
What is Variation, Overproduction, Adaptation, Descent with Modification?
500
This is the study of the distribution of organisms around the world.
What is biogeography?