Evolution
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Evidence for Evolution
Fossils
Biblical Creationism
100
The idea that species do NOT change over time
What is the Fixity of Species?
100
The survival and reproduction of the organisms that are genetically best fit for their environment
What is the definition of Natural Selection?
100
A variation in an organism that helps it survive
What is Adaptation?
100
The appendix, wisdom teeth and tailbone of a human
What are Vestigial Structures?
100
Most fossils are found in this kind of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
What two events in Genesis have a great impact on how creationists view the history of life on earth?
What is Creation and the Flood
200
The belief that simpler organisms have slowly changed into new and more complex organisms over millions of years
What is evolution?
200
The variety of dog and cat breeds that we have today are a product of _________ _____________.
What is Artificial Breeding (Selective Breeding)
200
Which type of insect in England used natural selection to adapt to the color of the trees during the Industrial Revolution?
200
According to evolutionists, a dog’s paw, a human arm, bat wing, and a whale flipper are _________ structures.
What is homologous?
200
A large deposit of many fossils of many kinds all in one place
What is a fossil graveyard?
200
Only mutations in the DNA of ______________ can be passed on to offspring
What are gametes?
300
A concept that suggests that all of the earth's physical processes, such as erosion and mountain building, happen at the same rate, in the present as in the past.
What is Uniformitarianism?
300
The name of the islands where Darwin studied and gathered his evidence on Natural Selection
What are The Galapagos Islands?
300
Random changes in DNA
mutations
300
Method of determining the age of a fossil by comparing its placement with that of fossils in other layers of rock.
What is relative dating?
300
A type of absolute dating that involves measuring isotopes in the fossils themselves
What is a radiocarbon dating?
(Carbon-14 dating)
300
Most genetic mutations are ______________.
What is harmful?
400
Theory that organisms could acquire new traits during their lifetime and pass them onto their offspring (i.e., the giraffe)
What is The Theory of Acquired Characteristics?
400
The name of Darwin's first best-selling book
What is The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection?
(Origin of Species)
400
The struggle of organisms in a population resulting in organisms with favorable adaptations that will survive and reproduce.
What is survival of the fittest?
400
An organism from which two or more different species or lineages have evolved
400
An organism buried by wet sediment, slowly chemicals eventually harden creating an exact copy made of stone
What is a mineralized fossil?
400
The Creationist term for organisms that God made uniquely designed to reproduce.
What is a Biblical kind?
500
Blend of mutation and natural selection
What is modern synthesis?
500
Organisms that are similar and capable of reproducing are called a _________.
What is a species?
500
The random mutations that accumulate within the DNA of a population of organisms increase its ____________________.
What is genetic load?
500
Evidence in the fossil record that many organisms became extinct at about the same time
What is mass extinction event?
500
Carbon 14 dating can be used to date fossils only up to how many years old?
What is 100,000 years?
500
The organisms must be present in the fossil record in order for evolution to be true. Problem is, we can't find any.
What are transitional forms (missing links)?