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Fossils
Evidence for Evolution
Evidence for Evolution
Theories
Vocabulary
100
Sedimentary Rock
What are most fossils found?
100
camouflage
What is an organism blending in with its surroundings?
100
Evolution
What is change in an inherited feature over time?
100
Gradualism
What is the idea that evolution happens slowly with small changes over a long period of time that eventually lead to a new species?
100

Population

What is the number of a species in an area.

200
DNA Evidence
What is the study of comparing organisms based on similar genetic material?
200
Lamarck
Who developed the theory of Acquired Characteristics that has shown to be false?
200
Adaptation
What is a helpful variation?
200
Darwin
Who developed the Theory of Natural Selection?
200

Species

What is a groups of organisms that are similar and reproduce among themselves?

300
fossil in amber
When an organism is trapped and preserved in tree sap and hardens what is it called?
300

Giraffe necks over many years.

What is have gotten longer to adapt to eat leaves high in trees?

300
Homologous Structures
What are body parts with similarities in different organisms?
300

Close to DNA of Dogs

What is is Bear DNA?

300
Overproduction

What is the word for species producing more offspring than can survive?

400
Imprint Fossil
When an organism leaves the shape of its body or part of it in rock what is it called?
400
Relative Dating
What is a way to determine the age of a fossil using rock layers?
400
Embryology
What is the study that looks at the earliest development of organisms?
400
Natural Selection
What is also know as "Survival of the Fittest"?
400

Mutation

What is a change in DNA that results in a new trait?

500
bones
What is the part of many animals that becomes a fossil most often?
500
Radiometric Dating
What is the most accurate way to determine the age of a fossil?
500
Vestigial Structures
What are body parts that may have been needed in the past, but are no longer useful?
500
Variation
What is a difference in an inherited trait that began as a mutation?
500

Top layer of earth

What is the youngest layer?