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Question Answer A-100 ANSWER: Served as a naturalist on the HMS Beagle. QUESTION: Charles Darwin

Question Answer A-200 ANSWER: Incorrectly hypothesized that acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring. QUESTION: Jean Baptist de Lamark

Question Answer A-300 ANSWER: Hypothesized that with the increase of the human population there will be a struggle for survival (shortage of food, shelter, etc.) QUESTION: Malthus

Question Answer A-400 ANSWER: Two Geologists who theorized that the earth is really old. QUESTION: Hutton and Lyell

Question Answer A-500 ANSWER: Did experiments to try and demonstrate whether organic molecules could have formed before life was present. QUESTION:Miller and Urey

Question Answer ANSWER:The most dense portion of earth is found here. QUESTION: the core B-100

Question Answer B-200 ANSWER: Earths most recent Era is. QUESTION: Cenozoic

Question Answer B-300 ANSWER: The first organisms on earths surface were probably … QUESTION: bacteria/ prokaryotes

Question Answer B-400 ANSWER:About billion years ago the earth cooled enough for this gas to turn into a liquid. QUESTION: water/ H 2 O

Question Answer B-500 ANSWER: The formation of this organism allowed for oxygen breathing organisms to survive on earth. QUESTION: photosynthetic bacteria

Question Answer C-100 ANSWER: Shows that most organisms that ever lived on Earth are now extinct. QUESTION: Fossil Record

Question Answer C-200 ANSWER: Dating a sample of rock suspected to be very old would use a radioactive isotope with a (long/short) half life. QUESTION: long

Question Answer C-300 ANSWER: The Era we are currently in. QUESTION:Cenozoic

Question Answer C-400 ANSWER: The oldest Era on earth. QUESTION: Precambrian

Question Answer C-500 ANSWER:Mammals began to invade land in this era. QUESTION: Paleozoic

Question Answer D-100 ANSWER: Most inheritable differences are due to mutations during this type of cell division. QUESTION: meiosis

Question Answer D-200 ANSWER:this type of reproduction increases genetic variation. QUESTION: sexual

Question Answer D-300 ANSWER: This theory suggests that eukaryotic cells arose from living communities of several prokaryotic organisms. QUESTION: endosymtiotic theory

Question Answer D-400 ANSWER: This type of natural selection favors individuals on one end of a bell curve over the average and the other end of the cure. QUESTION: directional

Question Answer D-500 ANSWER: This can be disturbed by movement into and out of a population, nonrandom mating, mutations, and small population size. QUESTION: genetic equilibrium

Question Answer E-100 ANSWER: Eggs, body parts, footprints preserved in sedimentary rock. QUESTION: fossils

Question Answer E-200 ANSWER: The time it takes for half of a radioactive isotope to decay. QUESTION: half life

Question Answer E-300 ANSWER: organisms survive to reproduce. QUESTION: natural selection/ survival of the fittest

Question Answer E-400 ANSWER: Wrote an essay the pushed Darwin to publish his findings. QUESTION: Wallace

Question Answer E-500 ANSWER: Evolution of two different species that are dependent on one another and adapt to each others’ changes. QUESTION: coevolution

Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: Mav’rick QUESTION:What is the name of Yosemite Sam’s driver in the Bugs Bunny cartoon in which Sam wants to drill an oil well in Bugs’ home?