The Fossil Record
The remains or evidence of once living organisms.
What are fossils.
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A naturalist.
Who is Charles Darwin
The breeding of organisms for desired characteristics.
What is selective breeding.
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An inherited traits that increases an organisms chance of surviving and reproducing in its environment.
What is adaptations.
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Occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies.
What is extinction.
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Made up of all the fossils ever discovered on earth.
What is fossil record.
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Each bird has.
What are wings, feathers, and a beak.
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Artificial selection explains.
What is Darwin's theory.
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Natural selection explains how all species.
Change over time.
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Occurs when many species become extinct within a few million years or less.
What is mass extinction.
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The fossil record provides evidence that species have?
Changed over time.
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A person who studies plants and animals by observing them.
What is a naturalist.
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Darwin also had a hobby of breeding.
Domestic pigeons.
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As time passes.
More variations arise.
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The fossil record contains evidence that five mass extinction events have occurred during.
What is Phanerozoic
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Scientist thing it represents only a small fraction of all the.
Organisms that have lived on earth.
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A slight difference in a inherited trait of individual members of a species.
What is variation.
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Darwin realized the changes by selective breeding were.
Much like the ones by natural breeding.
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Every species has many.
what are adaptations.
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Extinction can occur when.
Environment changes quickly.
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Fossil record contain millions of.
What are fossils.
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Darwin spent many years observing.
What are plants and animals.
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Darwin provided many examples of adaptations on the book.
Origin of species.
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Behavioral adaptations involve the way an organism.
Behaves or acts
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The fossil record contains clear evidence of.
Extinction of species over time.
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