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He traveled on the HMS Beagle to the Galapagos Islands in the 1850’s, studying various organisms and formulating the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This always flows from hot objects to colder objects.
What is heat?
Any organism which must eat other organisms for food.
What are consumers?
This part of the scientific method is like an educated guess or prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
This type of wave moves faster through denser materials.
What are sound waves?
The process by which organisms better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of their species.
What is Natural selection?
This state of matter has a defined volume but no defined shape.
What is liquid?
The struggle between organisms for limited resources.
What is competition?
The variable a scientist directly controls in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
A property of waves which increases as its energy decreases.
What is wavelength?
The two main animals Darwin focused on during his studies in the Galapagos.
What are Finches and Tortoises?
This can occur when heat is added to or removed from an object.
What is a change of state?
Organisms in an environment that make their own food through processes such as photosynthesis.
What are producers?
These help scientists understand things that can’t be directly observed such as what the inside of the Earth looks like.
What are models?
Combining red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet light together will make this color of light.
What is white light?
A mouse’s fur color helping it camouflage in its environment is an example of this.
What is adaptation?
Heat will always flow between objects when they have a difference in this.
What is temperature?
All food chains in a single ecosystem.
What is a food web?
When scientists try to run the same experiment as others to see if they get the same results.
What is replication?
The bending of light when traveling through a dense medium such as water.
What is refraction?
An advantage in one environment could turn into this in a different environment.
What is a disadvantage?
The law which states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
Data gained from scientific experimentation and observation.
What is Empirical evidence?
The phenomenon we sometimes see when sunlight is bent through water droplets in the atmosphere.
What is a rainbow?