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The Theory
Charles Darwin
Mechanisms of Evolution
Other Scientists
Wild Card
100
Something that can be inherited through genetic characteristics... means that everyone is different!
What is variation?
100

What country was Charles Darwin from?

What is England?

100

This process is when HUMANS choose the traits that are desirable and breed animals or plants to promote these traits.

Artificial Selection

100

Which scientist analyzed human over-population and defined the "Carrying Capacity" of the planet?

Thomas Malthus

100
Any trace or remains of a once-living organsim that has been preserved by natural processes.
What is a fossil?
200
Organisms often have more ____________ than will survive.
What is offspring?
200

What island did Darwin travel to where he made many of his observations related to evolution?

The Galapagos Islands (in the Pacific)

200
Any kind of inherited trait that improves an organism's chances of survival and reproduction in a given environment.
What is an adaptation?
200

This scientist focused on the slow processes that shape the Earth and is considered to be the "Father of Geography?"

James Hutton

200

This is an extinct species that falls somewhere between the ancient ancestor and the modern living species.

Transitional species

300
When organisms try to get their fair share of a limited amount of resources.
What is competition?
300
What was the name of the boat that Darwin sailed in?
What is The Beagle
300

This term represents how well an organism both survives AND reproduces in its environment.

What is FITNESS?

300

Was very close to figuring out the mechanisms of Natural selection, but instead proposed the inaccurate "Theory of Acquired Characteristics."

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
300

Anatomical traits that are similar in structure, but differ in function:

Homologous

400
The process whereby organisms that have advantages survive and pass their genes onto their offspring.
What is natural selection?
400
What animals did Charles Darwin observe that helped lead him to his theory of evolution- and what did he notice about these animals?
What is either finches beaks or tortoise shells
400

This process uses radioactive isotopes to determine the exact age of a fossil.

What is Absolute dating/age?

400
The Father of Paloentology who also developed the theory of "Catastrophism."

Georges Cuvier

400

Provide examples of the following: (1) Two Analogous structures, (2) Two Vestigial structures (in humans or animals)

Bird & Butterfly wings

Penguin flippers, shark, or whale fins

Wisdom teeth, Appendix, Ostrich wings, etc. 

500

List the FOUR main principles of Natural Selection:

1. Overproduction

2. Adaptation

3. Variation

4. Differential Reproduction

500

What was the name of Darwin's friend/competitor that wrote him a letter encouraging to publish his findings on Evolutionary Theory?

Alfred Russel Wallace

500
When organisms in separate environments (ex: on different continents) originated from a common ancestor.
What is biogeography?
500

What was the name of the concept, developed by Charles Lyell, that says the forces acting on the Earth in the past are the same forces that are currently at work. Says that change happens extremely slowly over time. 

Uniformitarianism 

500

A type of evolution in which two or more organisms involve in RESPONSE to each other over time. 

Coevolution