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Q: Change over time
Q: Change over time
A: Evolution
Q: Characteristics that help an organism survive
A: Adaptations
Q: Differences among members of a species
A: Variations
Salmon varieties
Q: Wide range of traits within a species; helps organisms adapt to
changes in the environment.
A: Diversity
Q: Natural process where variations in offspring allow them to adapt to a changing environment
making them more likely to survive and reproduce.
A: Natural selection
Q: Who developed the Theory of Evolution?
A: Charles Darwin
Q: Individual organisms and whole species change over time.
A: The Theory of Evolution
Q: Evidence for evolution based on imprints of ancient animals and
plants left in rock.
A: The fossil record
Q: Evidence for evolution based on the fact that embryos of different
species are similar.
A: Embryology
Q: Evidence for evolution based on similarities in genetic
background between species.
A: DNA
Q: Evidence for evolution based on similarities in structures like arms,
wings, hands.
A: Homologous structures
Q: Evidence for evolution based on structures that are
no longer used.
A: Vestigial structures
Q: Species in danger of dying out
A: Endangered
Q: When there are no more living organisms in a species.
A: Extinct
Q: Sudden, permanent change in an organism’s
genetic material (DNA).May be harmful or helpful.
A: Mutation
Q: Remains of organisms that died long ago.
A: Fossils
Q: Type of rock that tells the history of the earth with layers of fossils.
A: Sedimentary rock
