1. Evidence for Evolution Levels of Organization
Darwin
Evolution
Evidence for Evolution
Patterns of Evolution
Levels of Organization
Obtaining Energy
Chemical Cycles
Relationships 5 10 15 20 25

2. Darwin - 5 Points
The individual who published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the father of natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
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3. The sailing ship on which Darwin traveled for five years
Darwin - 10 Points
The sailing ship on which Darwin traveled for five years
What is The Beagle?
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4. What is the Galapagos Islands?
Darwin - 15 Points
The location off the coast of South America where Darwin collected finches
What is the Galapagos Islands?
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5. The theory stating that organisms change over time
Darwin - 20 Points
The theory stating that organisms change over time
What is evolution?
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6. Who is Jean-Baptiste LaMarck?
Darwin - 25 Points
The scientist who hypothesized that acquired characteristics can be passed on to offspring
Who is Jean-Baptiste LaMarck?
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7. What is selective breeding (artificial selection)?
Evolution - 5 Points
A method used by humans to choose and breed individuals of a species with the most desirable traits
What is selective breeding (artificial selection)?
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8. Evolution - 10 Points
The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in an environment and thereby pass on their genes to their offspring
What is fitness?
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9. Evolution - 15 Points
An inherited trait that increases an organism’s chance of survival in a particular environment
What is an adaptation?
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10. What is natural selection or survival of the fittest?
Evolution - 20 Points
The process by which individuals with variations that make them best-suited to their environment reproduce more than individuals without those variations
What is natural selection or survival of the fittest?
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11. Individuals do not evolve, but these do
Evolution - 25 Points
Individuals do not evolve, but these do
What are species?
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12. Evidence for Evolution – 5 Points
The preserved remnant or trace of an organism from a past ecological age
What is a fossil?
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13. Evidence for Evolution – 10 Points
The study of development of fertilized eggs that shows similar patterns across species
What is embryology?
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14. Evidence for Evolution – 15 Points
Structures that have similar structures but different functions, such as a whale fin and a bat wing
What are homologous structures?
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15. Evidence for Evolution – 20 Points
Structures that have different structures but similar functions, like bird wings and bee wings
What are analogous structures?
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16. Evidence for Evolution – 25 Points
Structures that served a purpose in an ancestral organism but do not have a useful function in the modern organism, like the appendix in humans
What are vestigial structures?
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17. Patterns of Evolution - 5 Points
The process by which many organisms become extinct at the same time
What is mass extinction?
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18. Patterns of Evolution - 10 Points
A pattern of evolution in which two species interact closely and change in response to each other over time
What is coevolution?
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19. Patterns of Evolution - 15 Points
A pattern of evolution in which one species evolves into several different species
What is divergent evolution?
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20. Patterns of Evolution - 20 Points
A pattern of evolution in which different species evolve to have similar structures as a result of living in similar environments
What is convergent evolution?
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21. Patterns of Evolution - 25 Points
The formation of a new species
What is speciation?
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22. Levels of Organization - 5 Points
An individual of a species
What is an organism?
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23. Levels of Organization – 10 Points
A group of individuals of the same species living in the same area at the same time
What is a population?
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24. Levels of Organization – 15 Points
Different populations interacting and living in the same area
What is a community?
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25. Levels of Organization – 20 Points
All of the living species in an area interacting with the nonliving environment
What is an ecosystem?
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26. Levels of Organization – 25 Points
The broadest level of organization that extends from Earth’s atmosphere to below the ocean floor
What is a biosphere?
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27. Obtaining Energy – 5 Points
An organism that uses sunlight or chemicals to make organic compounds
What is a producer or autotroph?
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28. Obtaining Energy – 10 Points
An organism that must consume other plants or animals to obtain energy
What is a heterotroph or consumer?
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29. Obtaining Energy – 15 Points
An organism that gains energy by eating only plants
What is a herbivore or primary consumer?
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30. Obtaining Energy – 20 Points
An organism that gains energy by eating only animals
What is a carnivore or secondary consumer?
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31. Obtaining Energy – 25 Points
An organism that gains energy by breaking down dead plants and animals
What is a decomposer?
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32. Chemical Cycles - 5 Points
The chemical cycle that involves evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation
What is the water cycle?
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33. Chemical Cycles - 10 Points
The chemical cycle that involves photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and combustion
What is the carbon cycle?
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34. Chemical Cycles - 15 Points
The chemical cycle that involves nitrogen fixation, nitrification, and denitrification
What is the nitrogen cycle?
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35. Chemical Cycles - 20 Points
The chemical cycle that involves a chemical released gradually from rocks and is needed to make DNA and RNA
What is the phosphorus cycle?
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36. Chemical Cycles - 25 Points
The process by which chemicals, elements, and matter are cycled between organisms and parts of the biosphere
What is biogeochemical cycling?
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37. Relationships - 5 Points
The biological and physical role of an organism in its environment
What is a niche?
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38. Relationships - 10 Points
Interaction in which one animal kills and consumes another organism
What is predation or predator-prey?
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39. Relationships - 15 Points
A relationship in which two organisms live together and both benefit
What is mutualism?
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40. Relationships - 20 Points
A relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism and harms it by taking nutrient from it
What is parasitism?
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41. Relationships - 25 Points
A relationship in which one organism benefits from another organism and that organism is neither harmed nor helped
What is commensalism?
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