Vocabulary
What is fitness in biology terms?
An organisms ability to produce a large amount of offspring. If and animal gives out more children it is more fit.
What three elements are in our atmosphere(At least name 1)?
What is Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide?
How many squares are in a punnet square ?
What is 4?
What is the closest living relative to the T-Rex?
What is the Chicken?
Who is the most well know geologist that contributed to the theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
What are analogous structures?
is the various structures in different species that have the same function but have evolved separately.
In SOH-CAH-TOA which section do you use to distinguish the height of something.
What is TOA?
What does a mean when both alleles are the same in a gene? Example (HH)
What is Homozygous?
What branch of dinosaurs do birds come from?
What is Theropods
What islands did Charles Darwin study.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without its atmosphere.
What is an example of carbon?
What is Charcoal,Coal,and Graphite?
What does a mean when both alleles are different in a gene? Example (Hh)
What is Heterozygous?
What are fossils and what is a fossil record?
Fossils-the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.
Fossil Records-to refer to the total number of fossils that have been discovered, as well as to the information derived from them
What is Natural Selection?
the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is a Pedigree?
is a diagram that shows the occurrence and appearance or phenotypes of a particular gene or organism and its ancestors from one generation to the next.
What is Slash & Burn Farming?
(teacher decides if points are given)
Must at least include the process of it.
If a female with blood type AB crosses with a male with A blood, can there child be born with O Blood.
What is No?
(No O blood is present in bother parents)
What is the name of the dinosaurs that made a link between dinosaurs and birds?
What is Archaeopteryx?
Name and example of natural selection?
(teacher decides if points are given)
What is a phenotype and what is a genotype?
Phenotype- is the physical appearance of something because of its genotype.
Genotype- is an individual's collection of genes.
What is the Lithosphere,Biosphere, and Atmosphere?
-(Lithos)the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
-(Bios)Its all the sum of all ecosystems.
-(Atmos) the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
What are gametes, and what do they show?
-They are both the egg from a female,and the sperm of a male.
-Shows the allele given by the parents to their child, and there possible genotype and phenotype outcomes.
How are theropods and there ancestry show similarity to birds we have today.
Fossil records show similar homologous structure meaning that theropods later became birds that we have today.
What is different between Lamarck's and Darwin's theories?
Lamarck's view was that different species got their changes because they wanted to.
Darwin's view was that over time animals changes and developed their traits due to natural selection.