Adaptation
What is an Adaptation?
A behavior, physiological, physical (structural) characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What are Fossils?
The remains or impression of remains of a living organism preserved or petrified as rock. Evidence of evolution.
What is the Law of Superposition?
In undisturbed sediment or rock the oldest is on the bottom, and youngest on top.
What is the Major divisions of the time scale called?
Eons
What is Natural Selection?
An Evolutionary process by which favorable traits and characteristics that make an organism better suited to its environment are selected through reproduction.
Is the color of an organisms fur Physical (structural), Behavioral, or a Physiological Characteristic.
Physical (Structural)
What is a Body Fossil?
Fossilized remains of the actual organism. The organisms cells are filled with rock particles. Petrified wood, shark tooth are good examples.
What type of dating can provide chronological order for classifying rock layers?
Relative dating
Subdivisions of Eons.
Eons are broken into__.
Eras
What benefit comes from Natural Selection?
The beneficial adaptations and traits are passed on through the process of natural selection.
What do Adaptations do?
Help organisms be better suited to live.
Impression of an organism left in a soft substance which later hardens into rock. Impression of a shell is a good example. Fossilized borrow, footprints, etc.
What is the scientific term for layers of sediment or solid rock?
Strata
Subdivisions of Eras
Eras are broken into ___.
Who's Theory was Natural Selection?
Wallace and Darwin's Theory.
What are some examples of Adaptation?
Color and thickness of fur
Length and shape of beak
Speed to catch prey or speed to avoid getting caught by predator.
Where do fossils form?
In Sediments
Subdivisions of Periods
Periods are broken into__.
Epochs
True Or False
Over a period of time these traits become more and more common in the population!
True
True or False
Adaptations can be inherited from parent or learned
True
(Fun Fact)
How long does it take for a fossil to form?
It takes fossils about 10,000 years to form.
Sediment is rock that has been broken into smaller pieces of sand by___.
Weathering
Life Forms
True Or False
Natural Selection was Theorized by one person.
False