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Natural Selection
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This is the name of the islands off the coast of Ecuador where Darwin noted some of his most famous observations.
What is Galapagos?
100
A short phrase describing the idea that organisms with the adaptations best suited to the environment will survive.
What is "Survival of the fittest" or Natural Selection.
100

A process describing how traits that benefit survival and reproduction go to the next generation?

natural selection

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Selections where humans pick the traits they want to pass down on organisms

artificial selection

200
These were the type of birds that Darwin famously studied and noted both similarities and differences. (He also studied other animals such as giant tortoises and iguanas.)
What are finches?
200

What adaptation did moths have to survive during the industrial revolution

camouflage 

200

A term describing the genetic differences between a population of organisms

variation

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selection by which the environment determines and organisms traits

natural selection

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This is the name of the ship Darwin sailed on
What is HMS Beagle?
300
This vocabulary term is a measure of an organism's ability to survive and reproduce.
What is fitness?
300

a change in behavior that better suits the organism to survive in their environment?

adaptation

300

A measure of how well an organism can survive and produce an offspring

fitness

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Darwin found pieces of rock embedded with the calcified hard shell of the Glyptodont. This type of rock is called what to paleontologists?
What is a fossil?
400

Natural selection was first described by what scientist?

Who were Charles Darwin?

400

A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

population

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Producing more offspring than will survive to increase the survival of an offspring

overproduction

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Darwin asked pigeon breeders for help forming his theory of natural selection, because they selected traits of the pigeons that were desirable. This is an example of _____________ _______________. This was evidence that the same thing could happen in nature, but instead nature would do the selection.
What is artificial selection?
500
Natural selection describes the evolution of a _____________ (not an individual)
What is population?
500

an organism that existed in the past

extinct

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the process of change over a period of time is known as

evolution