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Darwin Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Voyage on this ship allowed Darwin to make numerous observations and collect evidence that led him to propose a revolutionary hypothesis about the way life change over time. | HMS Beagle |
| Believes that evolution occurs as structures develop through use or disappear because of disuse and as these "acquired characteristics" are passed on to offspring. | Jean Baptise Lamarck |
| Wrote Principles of Geology | Charles Lyell |
| After reading this book, Darwin began to wonder, if the earth could change over time, could life change as well? | Principles of Geology |
| Proposed that Earth is shaped by geological forces that took place over extremely long periods of time called natural selection. | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
| Work written by Thomas Malthus | "Essay on the Principles of Population" |
| Place where Darwin collected species of finches | Galapagos Islands |
| Fellow naturalist that had the same ideas on evolutionary change as Darwin | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Wrote that the human populations have the potential to increase faster than the available food supply. The human population would cover Earth's entire surface if gone unchecked, but death, war and disease help control the population. | Thomas Malthus |