Quarterly 4 Review 2023

Question 1

When huge numbers of species die, or become extinct, in a very short time.

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Mass Extinction

Question 2

This is the term used for an organisms genetic makeup.

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Genotype

Question 3

When a single species of organism evolves into two or more new species

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Speciation

Question 4

The environment changes and a species does not have adaptations allowing them to survive, the population will increase.

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False

Question 5

When one fossil is compared to another to determine its age.

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Relative Dating

Question 6

As you move towards the equator, biodiversity

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increases

Question 7

This is the term used for the physical, observable characteristics of an organism

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Phenotype

Question 8

When humans select the trait that they want in an organism and breed for it.

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Artificial Selection

Question 9

Which scientist created the modern idea of Evolution?

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Charles Darwin

Question 10

Biodiversity referrs to the VARIETY of living things in a specific area.

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True

Question 11

The theory that life changes over millions of years of time.

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Evolution

Question 12

When nature chooses which organisms survive based on their adaptations.

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Natural Selection

Question 13

What would have the greatest impact on an ecosystem?

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Loss of producers

Question 14

Characteristics that help organisms survive and thrive in their environment

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Adaptation

Question 15

When the rock that a fossil is in experimented on to find the exact age the fossil was formed.

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Absolute Dating

Question 16

A remnant of a body part that serves no current purpose, but connects to an ancestor

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Vestigial Organ

Question 17

When an organism that once exhisted is no longer in existence.

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extinct

Question 18

When the remains of an organism are preserved in rock.

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Fossil

Question 19

A statement based on observation and experimentation

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Scientific Theory

Question 20

The BIGGEST reason for DECREASED biodiversity is...

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Habitat Destruction

Question 21

Using discovered fossils to assist in proving the theory of evolution

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Fossil Evidence

Question 22

HIPPO refers to...

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Factors that are impacting biodiversity

Question 23

The father of modern genetics.

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Gregor Mendel

Question 24

Using similarities in DNA to understand how closely related two organisms might be

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Genetic Evidence

Question 25

An early form of an organism from which more modern species evolved from

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Ancestor

Question 26

Using similarities in living and extinct species to prove relationships and understand ancestry

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Biological Evidence

Question 27

The term homozygous means...

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two of the same alelles for a specific trait

Question 28

Ther term heterozygous means...

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Two different alelles for the same trait

Question 29

Charles Darwin's key principle that organisms lay thousands of eggs so that some will survive

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Overproduction

Question 30

Charles Darwin's key principle that organisms in a group will be different genetically

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Variation

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