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Charles Darwin
Species Diversity
Evidence of Evolution
Macroevolution
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The name of the ship that Darwin traveled the world on.
What is HMS Beagle
100
The process in which one species splits into two or more species.
What is speciation
100
Imprints or remains of organisms that live in the past.
What are fossil records
100
The first geologic time period.
What is the Precambrian Era?
100
small changes that eventually lead to big differences.
What is microevolution
200
The location where Charles Darwin did his famous research.
Where are the Galapagos Islands
200
The number of species found in Darwin's specimen collection
What is 14?
200
Remains of organisms and plants in the earth that lived in the past
What are fossil records?
200
Geologic time period where there was a sudden burst of organisms.
What is the Cambrian Explosion?
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"a load of rubbish"
What did Darwin's friends call his theory of evolution?
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The type of animal that Darwin used in his experiments.
What are finches.
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natural selection
How does the process of speciation and evolution occur?
300
studied earthquakes and volcanoes
How did Charles Darwin use biogeography?
300
The process by which all of Earth's land came together to form a super continent
What is Pangaea
300
1859
When did Darwin publish his book?
400
Darwin hypothesized that this was the mechanism of evolution.
What is natural selection
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Each generation changes by a really little bit, but all these changes can be added up over time to make a big difference!
What was Charles Darwin's main point in his book?
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Geographical isolation create new species
What is allopatric speciation?
400
Holocene
What is the most recent epoch called?
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
What is the full title of Darwin's book?
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The name of the man who inspired Charles Darwin
Who is Charles Lyell?
500
Some finches were bigger and better at something than others
How were some finches able to survive longer than others?
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speciation without geographic isolation
What is sympatric speciation?
500
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How many mass extinctions have occurred so far?
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Allopatric Speciation and Sympatric Speciation
What are the two types of speciation