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Question Answer The Voyage -100 ANSWER: QUESTION: Who is Charles Darwin?

Question Answer The Voyage -200 ANSWER: What was Darwin's job on he boat? QUESTION: Naturalist

Question Answer The Voyage -300 ANSWER: What was the name of the Island where Darwin notice Natural Selection? QUESTION: Galapagos Islands

Question Answer The Voyage -400 ANSWER: How did Darwin come up with the idea of Natural Selection? QUESTION: He noticed that the birds were similar on the different islands showing a common ancestor.

Question Answer The Voyage -500 ANSWER: What was the name of the birds that Darwin studied? QUESTION: Finches.

Question Answer ANSWER: Who was the believed missing link? QUESTION: Lucy History-100

Question Answer History-200 ANSWER: QUESTION: Branching Tree

Question Answer History-300 Daily Double ANSWER: What evidence do we use to study the past and how do we know how old that evidence is? QUESTION: With fossils using rock layers or carbon dating.

Question Answer History-400 ANSWER: What was the 1st connection between ape to man? (Hint not tools) QUESTION: Walking on two feet.

Question Answer History-500 ANSWER: What would you call this picture? QUESTION: The Evolution of Man.

Question Answer Natural Selection-100 ANSWER: What is an adaptation to live in the snow? QUESTION: Fur, short ears, small eyes, or blubber.

Question Answer Natural Selection-200 ANSWER: What is the term where only he best lives? QUESTION: Survival of the fittest.

Question Answer Natural Selection-300 ANSWER: What are adaptations for night conditions? QUESTION: Night vision, good hearing, and big eyes.

Question Answer Natural Selection-400 ANSWER: What is the opposite of Natural Selection? QUESTION: Artificial Selection

Question Answer Natural Selection-500 ANSWER: How do you explain similar species in both places? QUESTION: They were once connected.

Question Answer Vocabulary-100 ANSWER: The adaptation that helps you blend into your environment… QUESTION: Camouflage

Question Answer Vocabulary-200 ANSWER: The explanation of how species change over long periods of time. QUESTION: Evolution

Question Answer Vocabulary-300 ANSWER: When similar organisms can mate and have fertile offspring, they are called a? QUESTION: Species

Question Answer Vocabulary-400 ANSWER: Individuals that are better adapted to the environment survive in a process called? QUESTION: Natural Selection

Question Answer Vocabulary-500 ANSWER: What are similar structures that related species have inherited from a previous ancestor? QUESTION: Homologous Structures

Question Answer Mystery-100 ANSWER: What was the name of Darwin’s book? QUESTION: The Origin of Species.

Question Answer Mystery-200 ANSWER: What was the name of Darwin’s boat? QUESTION: The M.S. Beagle

Question Answer Mystery-300 ANSWER: What happens when food and other resources are limited (there is not enough for everyone). QUESTION: More competition.

Question Answer Mystery-400 ANSWER: How long was Lucy our common ancester? QUESTION: 2.8 mya

Question Answer Mystery-500 ANSWER: Why was Darwin scared to write his book? QUESTION: People believed in creation and the church was very powerful.

Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: Why wasn’t Neanderthal our closest relative? QUESTION: He was part of a different line of evolution that branched off.