Water Cycle
Carbon Cycle & Nitrogen Cycle
Environments Change
Natural Selection & Competition
Random
100
Circulates fresh water between the atmosphere and the earth.
What is water cycle
100
Traces the movement of carbon between living things and the environment.
What is carbon cycle
100
Any special characteristic that helps an organism survive in their environment.
What is adaptation
100
Organisms best suited to the environment will be most likely to survive and produce offspring.
What is the process of natural selection
100
Develop from a common ancestor.
What is homologous structures
200
Rain, snow, sleet, hail.
What is precipitation
200
Represents the movement of nitrogen among the atmosphere, soil, and living systems.
What is nitrogen cycle
200
An idea that attempts to explain how organisms on earth change over time.
What is theory of evolution
200
Breeders, farmers and geneticists control what traits to pass on to future generations.
What is artificial selection
200
When the last organism of a species dies.
What is extinction
300
Water vapor going into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation
300
What plants use to make glucose.
What is carbon dioxide
300
Gradual changes of an organism, from one form to another over many generations.
What is evolution
300
The ability of an organism to live, survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
What is fitness
300
A den violent change in a feature of the earth.
What is catastrophe
400
water vapor turning into liquid water
What is condensation
400
Another form of nitrogen.
What is ammonia
400
The first person to propose the idea of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin
400
One of the main driving forces behind evolution.
What is competition
400
When a large percentage of the organisms on earth go extinct. Usually occurs as a result of a catastrophe.
What is mass extinction
500
Water that does not seep into the soil.
What is runoff
500
Convert nitrogen to nitrate.
What is nitrogen cycle, bacteria
500
A modern form of evidence used to support evolution.
What is DNA
500
Have a similar in function, but derive from different ancestors.
What is analogous structures
500
The wing of a bat and the wing of a bird is an example of.
What is analogous structure