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15-1 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Darwin’s Travels reveal about the number and variety of living species? | the diversity of living species was far greater than he had previously known. |
| What is evolution? | the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. |
| Why is evolution referred to as a theory? | A theory is an idea about how something in nature works that has gone through rigorous testing through observations and experiments designed to prove the idea right or wrong. |
| Evolution | the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form. |
| Theory | a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. |
| HMS Beagle | the ship in which the naturalist, Charles Darwin, sailed around the world from 26 December 1831 to 27 February 1832 |
| Fossils | the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock. |
| Galapagos Islands | their famously fearless wildlife and as a source of inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution |