Natural Selection/Evolution
What is natural selection?
The process which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
How many planets are in the solar system?
Eight
A push or a pull exerted on an object is called this?
Force
What is extinction?
Process of a species dying off.
What question can you never say yes to?
Are you asleep?
Mutations are a change in what?
DNA sequence of an organism.
What is the biggest planet?
Jupiter
Who discovered the Laws of Motion?
Sir Isaac Newton
What is a fossil?
The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved.
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
Define an offspring.
The product of the reproductive processes of a person, animal, or a plant.
What is Earth's Rotation?
Earth rotates on its axis where the Sun and the Moon appear to move east to west across the sky. The spinning of the Earth around its axis is called rotation and has an angle of 23.5 degrees. It is perpendicular to the plane of Earth's orbit.
True or False: Energy can be destoryed
False
What can fossils tell us about the past?
Can teach us where life and humans came from, show us how the Earth and out environment have changed through geological time.
A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is it possible?
His birthday is February 29th
What is evolution?
The process which change takes place over many generations. Some species will slowly change their physical characteristics.
Why do planets orbit the sun?
The gradational force between the Sun and other components on the solar system.
What is acceleration?
The change in the velocity of an object with respect to time (the rate of change in velocity)
What are vestigial structures?
Feature that a species inherited from an ancestor that is no longer needed.
I have a lake with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
A map
Explain adaptation.
The evolutionary process whereby an organism becomes better able to live in its habitat.
How many humans live on Earth?
8.1 billion
What is Newton's 3rd law?
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Homologous Structures are
Similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor but have completely different functions.
You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
The letter "E"