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CMS Evolution and Natural Selection Vocab Review
CMS Evolution and Natural Selection Vocab Review
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Test your knowledge of Evolution and prepare for our upcoming TEST!
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Charles Darwin's key principle that the best traits will survive and be passed on to offspring
Natural Selection
Overproduction
Variation
Adaptation
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Charles Darwin's key principle that organisms in a group will be different genetically
Selection
Overproduction
Variation
Adaptation
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When one fossil is compared to another to determine its age.
Radioactive Dating
Blind Dating
Absolute Dating
Relative Dating
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Any conditions that impact living organisms, including abiotic and biotic factors.
environmental factors
genetic factors
fossil factors
people skills
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Theory that changes in life often happen in small increments over long periods of time
speciation
gradualism
natural selection
punctuated equilibrium
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Replacement of one type of community by another at a single location over a period of time.
Absolute dating
Competition
Genetic Variation
Succession
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The variety of life on Earth, including variety of genes, species, and ecosystems
inheritance
fossil record
diversity
gradualism
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Charles Darwin's key principle that helpful mutations help some organisms survive
Variation
Selection
Overproduction
Adaptation
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When the rock that a fossil is in experimented on to find the exact age the fossil was formed.
Relative Dating
Radioactive Dating
Absolute Dating
Double Dating
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When nature chooses which organisms survive based on their adaptations.
Speciation
Evolution
Natural Selection
Only the strong survive
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When there is competition among organisms to survive
Struggle to survive
Adaptation
Battle of the Minds
Mutation
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Charles Darwin's key principle that organisms lay thousands of eggs so that some will survive
Variation
Overproduction
Adaptation
Selection
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When humans select the trait that they want in an organism and breed for it.
My way, or the highway
Natural Selection
Nutritional Selection
Artificial Selection
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When the remains of an organism are preserved in rock.
Igneous
Metamorphic Rock
Sedimentary
Fossil
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The likelihood that a possible event will occur at any given instance:
Succession
Relative Dating
Probability
Inherited Variance
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A statement based on observation and experimentation
Scientific Theory
Scientific Hypothesis
Scientific Law
Scientific Observation
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When a single species of organism evolves into two or more new species
Variation
Speciation
Isolation
Selection
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An early form of an organism from which more modern species evolved from
Grandmother
Relative
Ancestor
Brother
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Using discovered fossils to assist in proving the theory of evolution
Fossil Evidence
Genetic Evidence
CSI Evidence
Biological Evidence
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When huge numbers of species die, or become extinct, in a very short time.
Extinction
Eradication
Many Extinction
Mass Extinction
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Sudden evolutionary change in response to a sudden environmental change
presto chango
natural selection
gradualism
punctuated equilibrium
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The theory that life changes over millions of years of time.
Evolution
Genetics
Growing up
Natural Selection
