Evidence for Evolution
Made up of all the fossils that have been found, along with their relative ages.
What is the Fossil Record?
In conflict or competition with a specified or implied subject.
What is opposing?
An organism's ability to survive and reproduce
What is fitness?
geologist and natural historian who developed the theory of natural selection to explain evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Pick a number between 1-10
What is 2?
The natural arrangement of the various forms of animals and plants in the different regions of the earth
What is Geographical Distribution?
arranged in classes or categories.
What is classified?
Refers to living things
What is biotic?
modification of an organism or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its environment
What is an adaptation?
First one to hit the buzzer is my favorite student for the week
Who is it?
Features of different species that are similar in function but not necessarily in structure and which do not derive from a common ancestral feature
What are Analogous Structures?
explain or make (something) clear by using examples, charts, pictures, etc.
What is illustrates?
An animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
What is prey?
change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations
What is natural selection?
Name the movie franchise this quote is from: 'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'
Hint: Mr. Schoon loves these movies because he's a nerd.
What is the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?
Similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor, but the features serve completely different functions.
What are Homologous Structures?
estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between.
What is compare?
An animal that naturally preys on others.
What is a predator?
evolutionary process in which humans consciously select for or against particular features in organisms
What is artificial selection?
Mr. Schoon has had two tutors from UCI help out in the classroom. Name one of them
Who are Jasmine and Laura?
Structures that have no apparent function and appear to be residual parts from a past ancestor are called
What are Vestigial Structures?
the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected; a thing's effect on or relevance to another.
What is relation?
Complete dying out of a species
What is extinction?
Scientists use biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of DNA that makes up a gene in a process called
What is genetic engineering?
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Who is Spongebob Squarepants?