It is Darwin's term for changes that take place very gradually and over a very very long time.
What is Evolution.
100
Darwin observed these animals which had different shells depending on which island they lived on.
What are Tortoises
100
It is the four word term that means only the organism best fit for its environment will survive.
What is Survival of the Fittest
100
The term which means that the species is now dead and gone forever.
What is extinct.
100
It is Darwin's first name
What is Charles
200
It is the location that inspired Darwin to write about changing species.
What is The Galapagos Islands
200
Nicolas Steno observed that "tonguestones" were actually not rocks but were from this animal
What is a shark?
200
Darwin believes that evolution happens because of this "natural" thing
What is natural selection
200
It is the term which means that half of the atoms in a fossil decay.
What is a half-life.
200
A scientist who studies fossils?
What is a Palentologist?
300
It is the name of the ship that Darwin traveled in while seeing and writing about the world.
What is The Beagle
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY- WORTH 600 POINTS
Darwin noticed creatures that used this survival technique for their young, where certain organisms "produce many, many young so that some will have to survive"
What is overproduction
300
What does an animal adapt to?
What is it's environment?
300
It is the two word term for when many types of organisms die and are gone forever at the same time.
What is "mass extinction"
300
What are vertebrates?
Animals with a backbone
400
It is the country that Charles Darwin was born and raised in.
What is England (United Kingdom)
400
Darwin observed that some species can be slightly different looking than each other just by chance, which is what this term means.
What is a variation
400
A successful organism may pass its traits to its offspring through these
What are its genes
400
What era did the one of the biggest mass extinctions take place?
What is the Permian?
400
Why do embryos of vertebrates look so similar as they develop?
What is vertebrates descended from a common ancestor
500
It is the type of birds that had several different kinds of beaks, noticed by Darwin while on his island travels.
What are Finches
500
Alfred Wegner observed that the continents looked like they fit together like a puzzle and that fossils from the same species were found on different continents this lead him to believe the continents were all connected in the pass in a supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
500
When humans force natural selection on an animal such as a dog or cat, by choosing who they have offspring with, they are doing this term.
What is selective breeding
500
It is the term for figuring out the ages of fossil based on how deep or shallow they are buried compared to other fossils.
What is "relative dating"
500
What are the 4 geological eras and put them in order from most recent to oldest?
What is Cenozoic-->Mesozoic-->Paleozoic-->Precambrian