2. Vocabulary

3. Earth’s History

4. Charles Darwin

5. Natural selection

6. Evidence of Evolution

7. Evolution in Action

8. Evidence of Evolution
Earth’s History
Charles Darwin
Natural Selection
Evolution in Action
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9. Process by which individuals better suited to their environment can survive and reproduce most successfully.

10. What is Natural Selection or Survival of the Fittest?

11. A long, slow change in organisms over long periods of time.

12. What is Evolution?

13. Any inherited trait or characteristic that increases an organism’s chances for survival.

14. What is Adaptation?

15. A sudden change in the sequence of DNA

16. What is a Mutation?

17. The combined genetic make-up of ALL the members of a population.

18. What is a Gene Pool?

19. Estimated age of the Earth

20. What is 4 billion years old?

21. This gas was missing from the early Earth atmosphere

22. What is oxygen (O2)?

23. Habitat for the first life forms on Earth

24. What are oceans and seas?

25. Besides UV radiation in the early atmosphere, this energy created simple amino acids

26. What is lightening or electricity?

27. These 2 scientist’s experiment simulated the atmosphere of early Earth & made amino acids

28. Who are Miller and Urey?

29. He traveled to the Galapagos Islands on the HMS Beagle and observed similar species suited to their particular environment.

30. Who is Charles Darwin?

31. He proposed that giraffes got their long necks from stretching them
He proposed that giraffes got their long necks from stretching them. (the idea of use and disuse) Help give Darwin his idea

32. Who is Lamarck?

33. Islands studied by Charles Darwin

34. What are the Galapagos Islands?

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36. The mechanism proposed by Darwin for evolutionary change

37. What is natural selection?

38. Darwin used this phrase for individuals competing with each other

39. What is the “struggle for existence” or survival of the fittest?

40. Individuals having different traits in a population

41. What is genetic variation?

42. Man responsible for this theory

43. Who is Charles Darwin?

44. Must be present for adaptation to happen in the population

45. What is environmental challenges?

46. In order to pass on traits, an individual must do this

47. What is reproduce?

48. A measure of an individual’s genetic contribution to the next generation

49. What is fitness?

50. Remains or traces of an organism that died long ago

51. What is a fossil?

52. Term that means that species of similar types are found on different continents

53. What is biogeography?

54. Two populations are separated by geographic barriers such as rivers, mountains, or other bodies of water.

55. What is Geographic Isolation?

56. Appendix in Humans Leg Bones in Whales

57. What are examples of Vestigial Structures?

58. Daily
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59. The early stages of development in organisms in which there are many similarities among different species.

60. What is Embryology?

61. Galapagos tortoises and finches were similar to the finches and tortoises found here

62. What is the mainland of South America?

63. Scientists study this macromolecule to determine if organisms are related

64. What is DNA or nucleic acid?

65. Evolution in when species develop similar characteristics because of living in similar environments

66. What is convergent evolution?

67. Type of evolution in which organisms with similar structures develop from a common ancestor

68. What is divergent evolution?

69. When species evolve and spread out to fill all parts of an environment

70. What is adaptive radiation?

71. Final
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72. Fossils

73. Technique used to determine the absolute age of a fossil

74. What is radiometric dating?