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Ch. 15 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Catastrophism : sudden geolocial events caused extinction | Cuvier |
| Uniformitarism : Earth's surface has been changed by geologic processes | Lyell |
| Overpopulation could destory the earth | Malthus |
| evolution : change in species over time | Lamarck |
| Evolution occurs through Natural Selection | Darwin |
| species overproduce young | Overproduction |
| organisms inherit traits which improve/harm survival | Genetic variation |
| organisms compete to survive/mate | Struggle to Survive |
| trait that makes individual more likely to survive | Adaptations |
| those w/ best adaptations survive & reproduce | Differential Reproduction |
| measure of individual genetic contribution to next generation | Fitness |
| Remains or traces of organisms that lived long ago | Fossils |
| Principle of Superposition | Nicholas Steno |