Measuring Graphs
Graph using bars to show characteristics/values distributed within a group
What is a Histogram?
Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
What is environment?
Any difference in traits between individual organisms/animals
What are variations?
Genetic pieces that contain instructions inside cells for making a specific protein, e.g. hair color
What are genes?
Two synonyms for 'died out' and 'no longer alive on Earth'
What is extinct, lost, wiped out, etc.?
Parts of Histograms showing different groups or categories we are measuring (like height, fur color, beak size).
What is the x-axis (the bottom, or horizontal axis) on a Histogram?
*See this Natural Selection drawing on habitats
What is the organisms environment?
The reason some variations like white rabbit fur in snow, help animals survive; a way of hiding.
What is camouflage?
*See the Natural Selection drawing for genetics
What is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?
*See a Natural Selection drawing on species in Earth's past
What is to go extinct, or the process of extinction?
If histograms show more green-colored snakes after grass grows, this process is happening in the environment.
What is natural selection?
When animals fight for the same food or space within their environment
What is competition?
*See the Natural Selection drawing on so many differences
What is variation for horses?
(This) is when traits are passed to children by genes; AND why they take care of their parents
What is inheritance?
A famous example of extinction from millions of years ago, from where fossils come from
What is a dinosaur?
In Histograms about frog color, this part of the graph shows how many frogs have each color.
What is the y-axis (or vertical axis) on a Histogram?
Traits that help an individual survive in a specific environment.
What are adaptive traits?
The process where animals with adaptive traits are more likely to survive
What is natural selection?
Genes that form (this) molecule carry the genetic instructions for building an organism
What is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?
When a species is at risk of becoming extinct; very few in a population left
What is endangered?
It's written on Histograms to tell you what we're looking at, i.e. how often something happens or how many things fit into different groups.
What is the goal on a histogram?
What surviving populations of organisms/animals do in changing environments.
What is adaptation, or to adapt?
*Name the Natural Selection drawing of frogs
What is Ecuadorian Dart Frog variation?
The reason traits like having good eysight become more common over time
What is Natural Selection?
The process where species that do not adapt to changes might disappear forever
What is extinction?