Galapagos Islands Tour! After this slide, each slide will list multiple choices for the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Click on the name you think is correct. Once you choose a name you will find out if you are correct. You will then move forward or will have to try again.

Fire Crab Devil Crab Sally Lightfoot Crab

Galapagos Walrus Galapagos Sea Lion California Sea Lion

Charles Darwin

Domed Saddle Back Intermediate

Domed Saddle Back Intermediate

Domed Saddle Back Intermediate

Waved Albatross Blue Footed Booby Galapagos Hawk

Waved Albatross Blue Footed Booby Galapagos Hawk

Galapagos Short Eared Owl Waved Albatross Galapagos Short Eared Owl Galapagos Hawk

Galapagos Marine Iguana Galapagos Land Iguana Galapagos Marine Iguana Galapagos Lava Lizard

Galapagos Marine Iguana Galapagos Land Iguana Galapagos Marine Iguana Galapagos Lava Lizard

Galapagos Marine Iguana Galapagos Land Iguana Galapagos Marine Iguana Galapagos Lava Lizard

Galapagos Redneck Hawk Galapagos Vulture Galapagos Frigate Bird

Galapagos Flightless Cormorant Galapagos Vulture Galapagos Brown Duck

Galapagos Ground Finch Galapagos Tree Finch Galapagos Cactus Finch

Galapagos Ground Finch Galapagos Tree Finch Galapagos Cactus Finch

Galapagos Ground Finch Galapagos Vegetarian Tree Finch Galapagos Cactus Finch

Galapagos Short Eared Owl Galapagos Rock Owl Galapagos Short Eared Owl Galapagos Night Hawk

Galapagos Cormorants Galapagos Penguins Galapagos Sea Gulls

Galapagos Cactus Finch Galapagos Woodpecker Finch Galapagos Tree Finch Galapagos Cactus Finch Galapagos Woodpecker Finch

Galapagos Sheep and Rams Native Goats Galapagos Sheep and Rams Invasive Goats

Galapagos Carpenter Bee (male) Galapagos Carpenter Bee (female) Galapagos Wasp (male)

Galapagos Carpenter Bee (male) Galapagos Carpenter Bee (female) Galapagos Wasp (male)

Native Cat with Marine Iguana Invasive (Feral) Cat with Marine Iguana Native Cat with Lava Lizard

Native Dog with Marine Iguana Invasive (Feral) Dog with Marine Iguana Native Dog with Lava Lizard

Red Lipped Bat Fish Walking Cat Fish This fish is actually a pretty bad swimmer, and uses its pectoral fins to walk on the bottom of the ocean. Red Lipped Bat Fish Walking Cat Fish

SS Explorer HSM Beagle USS Discovery On the morning of December 27th 1831, a crew of seventy-three men, sailed out of Plymouth harbor under a calm easterly wind and drizzly rain. Charles Darwin became seasick almost immediately and started to have second thoughts about the voyage.

Species Review – How many do you remember? Click on the picture for the answer!

Waved Albatross These birds have a wave-like pattern of the feathers when they become adults Waved Albatross

I Can’t Fly but I sure can swim! Click on the picture for the answer! Galapagos Flightless Cormorant

Galapagos Frigate Bird (male) Girls have a white neck, I have a red one! Click on the picture for the answer! Galapagos Frigate Bird (male)

Galapagos Giant Tortoise I can live up to and over 100 years! Click on the picture for the answer! Galapagos Giant Tortoise

I am the most abundant reptile on the Galapagos Islands I am the most abundant reptile on the Galapagos Islands. There are 7 different species of me on the Galapagos Islands. I play an important part in controlling over-populated insect populations such as the Painted Locust.  I am usually 6 inches long but can grow to 12 inches. Click on the picture for the answer! Galapagos Lava Lizard

I am also known as a “Red Rock Crab”  I am also known as a “Red Rock Crab”. I am one of the most common crabs along the western coast of South America and can be seen along the entire coast of Central America, Mexico and nearby islands. Click for the answer! Sally Lightfoot Crab

 A stretch of sea or ocean containing a group of islands such as the Galapagos, Patagonia, Bermuda, The British Isles, The Cayman Islands and The Florida Keys is known as an - Archipelago

The Voyage of HMS Beagle – December 27, 1831 - October 2, 1836. 

Perhaps our first association with the word "Galapagos" is the name "Darwin." Darwin's visit to the Galapagos Islands had a resounding impact on the formation of his Theory of Natural Selection. A rather unmotivated and failing medical scholar, Charles Darwin accompanied Captain Robert Fitzroy as a travel companion and naturalist on the HMS Beagle. His book The Voyage of the Beagle is an account of his worldwide journey. When setting off from England in 1831 for a five-year voyage, Darwin had little ambitions for groundbreaking scientific research. After surveying the coasts of South America, the ship stopped over in the Galapagos Islands.

During his visit to the islands, Darwin noted that the unique creatures were similar from island to island, but perfectly adapted to their environments which led him to ponder the origin of the islands' inhabitants. Among those that struck Darwin so greatly were the finches that are now named in his honor. Darwin would later base some of his thought from the supposing that these finches were all descendents of the same lineage. Years later in 1859, Darwin finally consolidated all of his observations into his famous book On The Origin of Species, drastically and controversially altering the scientific view on the biological origins of life.