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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
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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
The idea that small changes eventually lead to big differences.
What is microevolution
200
The location where Charles Darwin did his famous research.
Where are the Galapagos Islands
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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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Darwin's friends called his theory of evolution this.
What is a load of rubbish?
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The type of animal that Darwin used in his experiments.
What are finches.
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The process by which speciation and evolution occur
What is natural selection
300
studied earthquakes and volcanoes
How did Charles Darwin use biogeography?
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The process by which all of Earth's land came together to form a super continent
What is Pangaea
300
The year Darwin published his book
When is 1859
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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
The name of the most recent epoch
What is Holocene
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The full title of Charles Darwin's book
What is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
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The name of the man who inspired Charles Darwin
Who is Charles Lyell?
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The trait that Darwin studied specifically on finches.
What are beaks?
500
speciation without geographic isolation
What is sympatric speciation?
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The number of mass extinctions that have occurred so far.
What is 5
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The two types of speciation
What are Allopatric Speciation and Sympatric Speciation