Vocabulary
Evidence
History of Evolution
Random Questions
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Term used to refer to a group of related organisms that has died out and has no living members
What is extinct?
100
The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past
What is a fossil?
100
What was observed about the finches on the galapagos islands?
They all had different beaks that matched the food they ate on the different islands.
100
Female guppies tend to choose brightly colored mates. Over time, the populaton of guppies becomes more colorful.
What is sexual selection?
200
The natural process by which something takes place.
What is mechanism?
200
All the fossils that have been discovered and what scientists have learned from them.
What is Fossil Record?
200
What causes variations in population?
Genetic mutation
200
The purpose of this action is to create animals with desirable traits
What is artificial selection or selective breeding?
300
How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is fitness?
300
The wings of an ostrich are an example of this kind of structure
What is a vestigial structure?
300
The name of Charles Darwin's book
What is "On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"?
300
This picture is an example of...
Camouflage
400
A type of natural selection that acts on an organism's ability to get a possible mate
Sexual selection
400
Structures that are similar in different species and have been inherited from a common ancestor.
What are Homologous structures?
400
This scientist thought that you would gain or lose features if you overused or didn't use them
Who is Lamarck?
400
A certain type of insect is very tasty to birds. Over time, this insect species comes to resemble another species of insect that makes birds sick.
What is mimicry?
500
The process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other, over time.
What is coevolution?
500
What are the 4 types of evidence that we have talked about in class that support the theory of evolution (whale evolution in particular)?
Fossils
Embryology
Comparative Anatomy
DNA
500
What were Darwin’s 3 key ideas in his theory of evolution by natural selection?
Overproduction
Variation
Competition
500
How can the law of superposition support the evidence for evolution?
The upper rock layers have fossils of more complex species while the lower layers have fossils of more simple species. The layers can show the changes in the fossils which can indicate extinction.