Survivor: Earth Edition
What are the four essential resources that all animals require to survive in their habitats?
What are food, water, shelter, and space?
What are the preserved remains or traces of ancient living things called?
What are fossils?
What word means the variety of different living things on Earth?
What is biodiversity?
What does "survival of the fittest" mean in natural selection?
What is organisms best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce?
Who am I? I am a group of living things that can breed together and produce offspring.
What is a species?
A camel's ability to withstand long periods without water is an example of what type of adaptation?
What is a physiological adaptation?
Where on Earth did life first begin billions of years ago?
What is in the ocean / sea?
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem?
What is biotic factors are living things, and abiotic factors are non-living things (like water, air, and rocks)?
Why did dark peppered moths survive better than light moths during the Industrial Revolution?
What is because pollution turned the tree trunks dark, making dark moths hidden from predators?
Who am I? I am the group of birds on the Galápagos Islands whose different beak shapes helped Charles Darwin understand evolution?
Who are the Galápagos finches?
Why do cacti have thick, waxy skin and sharp spines in the desert?
What is to store water and protect themselves from animals?
Why are hard body parts like bones, teeth, and shells much more likely to become fossils than soft tissues like skin or muscles?
What is because hard parts decay much slower and do not get eaten or destroyed as easily as soft tissues?
What do we call a group of the same species living in one area at a specific time?
What is a population?
What is it called when humans choose which plants or animals to breed for specific traits?
What is selective breeding?
Who am I? I am the process where a single species splits into two brand new species over time.
What is speciation?
How do structural adaptations differ from behavioural adaptations? Give one example of each.
What is a structural adaptation being a physical body feature (a giraffe's long neck or a cactus's waxy leaves), and a behavioural adaptation being an action or habit an organism takes (bird migration or animal hibernation)?
Which type of evidence best supports the theory of evolution?
What is similarities in DNA sequences between different species.
What is a community in an ecosystem?
What is all the different species living and interacting together in one area?
What is a GMO (Genetically Modified Organism)?
What is an organism whose DNA has been changed by scientists in a lab?
Who am I? We are body parts in different species (like a human arm and a bat wing) that look very similar in structure because we share a common ancestor, even though we use our limbs for different jobs
What are homologous structures
What might happen to a species if its habitat changes quickly and it cannot adapt in time?
What is it can become extinct?
How do fossils help scientists understand evolution?
What is by showing how living things have changed from simple forms to complex forms over time?
Why do regions near the equator have more species than places near the North or South Pole?
What is because the climate near the equator is warm and stable?
How do bacteria become resistant to antibiotics over time?
What is through natural selection, where the few bacteria that survive the antibiotic reproduce and pass on their resistance?
Who am I? I am a body part (like human wisdom teeth) that lost its original function over time through evolution?
What is a vestigial structure?