Darwin
Natural Selection
Evidence of Evolution
Vocabulary
Review of ALL CHAPTERS
100
The islands that Darwin studied
What are the Galapagos Islands?
100
Turtles producing hundreds of eggs
What is Overproduction?
100
Scientists looked at these to see how species from long ago looked much different than today
What are Fossils?
100
Small changes that add up to major changes over time
What is Gradualism?
100

the natural process by which certain traits that have a greater fitness for their environment lead to a reproductive advantage

What is Natural Selection

200
Looking at finches, beak shape is an example of this
What is Adaptation?
200
Sea Turtles having shells of different size and shape
What is Variation?
200
The more closely the DNA structures of two species are, the more ____________ the species are
What is Similar/Related?
200
Change over time
What is Evolution?
200
The sugar that plants make during photosynthesis
What is Glucose?
300
A well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations
What is Scientific Theory?
300
A faster sea turtle catching more food than another sea turtle.
What is Competition?
300
Bones structures that have been inherited from a common ancestor
What are Homologous Structures?
300
A new species can form when a group becomes ____________ for a long period of time
What is Isolated?
300
The study of heredity
What is Genetics?
400
Creating offspring of domesticated animals to have desirable traits
What is Artificial Selection?
400
An example of this type of change can lead to natural selection, such as soil becoming drier.
What is Environmental Change?
400
Two similarities between the early development of multiple animals.
What is They have Gills and have a Tail?
400
Rapid changes in a short period of time
What is Punctuated Equilibrium?
400
When genes from one organism are directly placed in the DNA of another organism
What is Genetic Engineering?
500
Scientists later learned from Darwin's studies that variation was a change(or shuffling around) of these
What are Genes?
500
These type of variations may accumulate in a species over time
What are Helpful?
500
This early animal was one of the first water animals to walk on land
What is Tiktaalik?
500
The name of Charles Darwin's ship
What is the Beagle?
500

when atoms rearrange into new products accompanied by an energy change (e.g., rusting, the reaction of vinegar and baking soda, etc.)

What is Chemical Change