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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Evolution Vocab Natural Selection Species Evolution -ary History Potpourri $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Final Jeopardy Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 A species of animal or plant threatened with extinction

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Scores Endangered

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What % of species that have lived on Earth are still here?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Scores.1%; that means many species that have lived on earth no longer exist

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 If two organism’s DNA is very similar, you can infer that these two organisms are….

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Scores …evolutionarily closely related.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 A scientist who studies fossils to learn about organisms that lived long ago.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Paleontologist Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Evolution is…; how is this different from Natural Selection?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 The gradual change of a species over time; Natural Selection is the theory Charles Darwin came up with the explain how Evolution happens. Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 A record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Geological Time Scale Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The law of superposition states that in horizontal layers of sedimentary rock, each layer is ______ than the layer above it and _______ than the layer below it.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Older, younger Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 A random genetic change that causes an offspring to have a different trait than either of their parents

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Mutation Scores

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$400 The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Natural Selection Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 The struggle between organisms for limited resources necessary for survival (food, water, shelter, space).

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Who is famous for proposing the theory of natural selection and getting all the credit? Who had a similar theory published at the same time?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Scores Charles Darwin and his book, “On the Origin of Species”, are credited as proposing the theory of Evolution occurring by Natural Selection. However, Alfred Wallace published a similar theory at the same time, but it was not as well formed nor accepted.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Who proposed the theory of acquired traits being the source of adaptations, like a giraffe stretching his next over time?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Lamarck Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is the fact of nature that causes the “struggle for existence”, as Darwin called it, or competition within a species for resources?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Overproduction of offspring Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 When you take an observation and draw a conclusion based on what you’ve learned, what you have formulated is called an

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Scores Inference (Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection is a complicated inference based on his observations.)

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 If a species survives due to an adaption and outlasts the competition, it still will not evolve unless it….

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Reproduces, and passes that adaptation onto its offspring. Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring is a…..

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Scores species

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What are the two causes of variation that can eventually create a new species?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Scores Random mutations and sexual reproduction

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 When do scientists determine that 1 species has diverged into two?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 When they can no longer interbreed. Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What was the main observation Darwin made that struck him as fascinating and served as the question he sought to answer with his theory?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 How is there such great variation of species on Earth? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What are the 3 possible effects of a mutation? What dictates its effect?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Scores Beneficial, negative, neutral; the environment

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 How are geological periods divided on the timeline? According to….

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 The appearance and disappearance of life forms. Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What were likely the first living things on Earth?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Single-celled organisms, probably bacteria. Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What era are we currently living in?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Cenozoic Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 According to the fossil record, how long have living things been on Earth? Be specific.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $ million years ago 3.6 billion years ago 3,600,000,000 years ago 3600 million years ago 3.6 billion years ago 3,600,000,000 years ago Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 According to the geological time scale, how long ago did Earth come into existence?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $ million years ago 4.5 billion years ago 4,500,000,000 years ago 4500 million years ago 4.5 billion years ago 4,500,000,000 years ago Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Where did Darwin do most of his field work while developing his theory of Natural Selection? What type of species did he focus on?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 The Galapagos islands; finches Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What are the four main pieces of evidence for evolution?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 -Geological Time (the vastness of time Earth has been here and changed) -Fossils -Rocks -Evo-Devo (Evolutionary developmental biology ;branch of biology that compares the development & DNA of different organisms to determine ancestral relationship & how they evolved.) -Geological Time (the vastness of time Earth has been here and changed) -Fossils -Rocks -Evo-Devo (Evolutionary developmental biology ;branch of biology that compares the development & DNA of different organisms to determine ancestral relationship & how they evolved.) Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What extinct species do scientists hope that they can use DNA to recreate?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Scores Mammoth

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Based on what we studied this unit, how can we be so complex yet have the same # genes as a chicken and less than an ear of corn?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Scores Because it’s not the # of genes you have, it’s the way in which those genes are utilized and turned off and off (how long, amounts, timing..). Also, the fact that we share so many genes supports the idea of shared ancestry too!

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What are 3 things that could cause a species to go extinct?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Environmental change Loss of food source Diseases Newly introduced predators HUMANS! Environmental change Loss of food source Diseases Newly introduced predators HUMANS! Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Scores Earth’s timeline Final Jeopary Question

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved List the 6 different eras that make up Earth’s timeline and list something significant that happened in each era.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Scores Geologic Name Event Early Precambrian Earth formed Late Precambrian First single celled organisms, First multicellular organisms marks end of period Early Paleozoic Fossils with shells marks beginning Late Paleozoic Mass extinction marks end Early land plants, amphibians, insects Mesozoic Mass extinction marks end-fossils include ammonites, dinosaurs, flowering plants Cenozoic Series of Ice ages marks end-birds, lg. mammals, early grasses