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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural Selection | theory proposed by Charles Darwin to explain how species change over time |
| Trilobite | 3-sedment-bodied organism used as an index fossil |
| Organic Evolution | theory that species have changed over time |
| Species | groups o forganisms that normally reproduces only with other members of their own group |
| Eons | longest geologic time unit; based on abundance of fossils |
| Period | ime unit characterized by types of life existing world-wide at the time |
| Epoch | shortest geologic time unit; based on difference in life forms that vary regionally, such as from continent to continent |
| Artifical Selection | breeding of certain species by humans for desired traits |
| Era | time unit based on major, striking and world-wide changes in types of fossils present |
| Geologic time lime/time line | division of Earth's history into time units based on the types of life-forms that lived only during certain periods;consists of periods, epochs, eras, and eons |
| Example of Artifical Selection | Runt |