2.  What you need ◦ White board ◦ Dry Erase Marker ◦ Eraser  I will put a question up on the board  Write down the answer on the dry erase board  Hold it up when finished  I will check your answer ◦ If correct put a tally mark in the corner of your board.

3.  What is the gradual change in species over time?

4.  Survival of the fittest can also be referred to as?

5.  What are the two main goals of every living organism, according to natural selection?

6.  Who was one of the main founding fathers of the theory of evolution?

7.  What was the name of the ship that Darwin used in his voyage?

8.  What was one of the main stops Darwin made on his voyage?

9.  Name an organism that Darwin found along his voyage.

10.  Besides looking at living organisms, what else did Darwin look at?

11.  What is the difference among individuals of a species?

12.  What variation do humans select those variations they find useful ?

13.  What are organs that serve no useful function in an organism ?

14.  Earth has millions of other kinds of organisms of every imaginable shape, size, and habitat. This variety of living things is called what?

15.  What is the results in changes in inherited characteristics of a population; these changes increase a species fitness in its environment?

16.  Put the following in the correct order (oldest to youngest) using the principals of relative dating?

17.  What is the process to determine the absolute ages of rocks by measuring the amounts of parent and daughter materials in a rock and by knowing the half-life of the parent?

18.  What are two ways to date rocks?

19.  What is the correct order of geological eras from oldest to youngest?

20.  What is the longest era of geological time?

21.  What was a major geological event that happened during the Precambrian Era?

22.  What era is the “Era of Recent Life”?

23.  Organisms with opposable thumbs, binocular vision, and flexible shoulders are known as what?

24.  What was special about Lucy (earliest hominid, Australopithecus)?

25.  Who lived in caves, were short with heavy bodies, and small chins? They also lived in families and hunted with stone tools.

26.  What is the meaning of homo sapiens?

27.  What is the study of development in organisms; compare embryos of different species?

28.  What major geological event happened in the Mesozoic era?

29.  What law says that the oldest rock layer is on the bottom and the youngest rock layer is on top?

30.  A fracture or a fault is an example of this.  It cuts through rock layers.  It is younger than the layers it cuts through

31.  What is it called when one rock body contains fragments of another rock body?

32.  What is an example of artificial selection?

33. In your science notebook, relate this quote by Darwin to the Theory of Evolution and your own life.