Question | Answer |
The change in a species or population over time. | Evolution |
What term refers to a group of organisms so similar to each other that they can breed & produce fertile offspring? | Species |
Charles Darwin was a naturalist aboard what ship on a 5 year scientific journey? | HMS Beagle |
Darwin studied many species of animals & plants found only on what islands? | Galapagos Islands |
A process in which organisms possessing certain traits that make them better adapted to an environment tend to survive, reproduce, increase in number, and therefore, continue to thrive | Natural Selection |
Any variation that aids an organism's chances for survival in its environment. | Adaptation |
What is the name of Darwin's book? | On the Origin of Species |
Species alive today have evolved with modifications from what? | Common Ancestors |
The different traits of a species that is a mechanism of Natural Selection | Variation |
In what year did Darwin published his groundbreaking book? | 1859 |
Darwin paid special attention to which two animals on the islands? | Finches and Tortoises |
Evolution happens by _______________ | Chance |
If a species is not adapted to environmental change, what two things could happen? | It can move or it will go extinct |
Adaptations allow animals to respond to and survive changes to their ___________________ | Habitat |
Organisms can choose to adapt. T/F | False |
The term given that describes organisms that are best adapted to survive in their habitat | Survival of the Fittest |
The process by which UNRELATED organisms evolve characteristics that are similar. | Convergent Evolution |