The Voyage
The name of the English naturalist, geologist, and biologist widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
Charles Darwin
True or False: Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell concluded that Earth is extremely old and that the processes that changed Earth in the past are the same processes that operate in the present.
True
Differences between members of the same species are called
Variations
The preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past
Fossils
In The Lion King, what is the name of Simba’s father?
Mufasa
The name of the ship
HMS Beagle
Nature provides the inherited variations, and humans select those variants they find useful
Artificial Selection
A physical or behavioral inherited characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment
Adaptation
The study of where organisms live now and where they and their ancestors lived in the past.
Biogeography
Which state did the US purchase from Russia?
Alaska
The name of the islands off the coast of South America where many observations were made & many examples of variation were found, such as the giant land tortoises
The Galapagos Islands
What did Darwin find that led him to the thought that if geological events like earthquakes were repeated many times over years, they could push rocks upward, forming mountains from rocks that had once been beneath the sea?
He observed the preserved remains of marine animals in mountains thousands of feet above sea level
If all populations have the potential to produce more offspring than can survive, members of a population will compete for a finite supply of environmental resources - this is called the ________ ___ _________
struggle for existence
A horse leg and chicken wing are examples of ________________________. A bee wing and a bird wing are examples of ________________________.
Homologous Structures ; Analogous Structures
What is Eminem's real name?
Marshall Mathers
The ancient preserved remains of the glyptodont resembled...
The modern armadillo
The study of how the earth formed, its structure and composition, and the types of processes acting on it.
Geology
What is "survival of the fittest"?
Organisms that are best-suited to life in their environment will be the ones who survive and reproduce, passing on their genes to the next generation
The human tailbone is an example of a(n) __________________ structure.
Vestigial
Which famous painter cut off part of his own ear?
Vincent Van Gogh
Darwin collected 68 species of _______ when he wasn't even looking for them in the first place
The last name of the man who believed in the "inheritance of acquired characteristics"
(e.g. a giraffe stretches its neck to be super long and then passes this characteristic on to its offspring)
Lamarck
The process in which the environment influences fitness
Natural Selection
Today, ____________ provides some of the strongest evidence supporting evolutionary theory. We now understand how mutations and sexual reproduction produce heritable variation on which natural selection operates.
genetics
Finish the lyrics:
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb ___________________________.
in the shape of an "L" on her forehead