2. Vocab

3. Darwin &
The Voyage to
The Galapagos

4. Principles of
Natural Selection

5. Sherlock
Holmes?

6. Junk Drawer

7. True or
False

8. Principles of Natural Selection Darwin & The Voyage to the Galapagos
Sherlock
Holmes
Junk Drawer
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9. A change in an organisms DNA.
Vocabulary - 100
A change in an organisms DNA.
What is a mutation?

10. Changes in heredity features of an organism over time.
Vocabulary - 200
Changes in heredity features of an organism over time.
What is evolution?

11. Vocabulary - 300
The evolution of one species into 2 different species that can no longer reproduce.
What is speciation?

12. Mutations create in a population.
Vocabulary - 400
Mutations create in a population.
What is variation?

13. Similar organisms whose members can reproduce among themselves.
Vocabulary - 500
Similar organisms whose members can reproduce among themselves.
What is a species?

14. Darwin & The Galapagos - 100
This man based his theory of evolution by natural selection on his research and observation of plants & animals on the Galapagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?

15. Darwin & The Galapagos - 200
Where did Darwin think the Galapagos Island finches ancestors came from?
What is South America?

16. Darwin & The Galapagos - 300
What were the variations in the finches that Darwin observed on the Galapagos Islands.
What are beak size?

17. Darwin & The Galapagos - 400 (better suited for environment)
Which one of Darwin’s Principles of Natural Selection is pictured here?
What is Adapation?
(better suited for environment)

18. Darwin & The Galapagos - 500 What is Natural Selection?
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution combines the ideas of inheritance of traits and…
What is Natural Selection?

19. Principles of Natural Selection - 100
Differences in inherited traits among members of the same species.
What is variation?

20. Principle of Natural Selection - 200 What is overproduction?
In nature, organisms in a population usually produce more offspring than their environment can support.
What is overproduction?

21. Principles of Natural Selection - 300
An inherited trait that gives an organism an advantage and makes it more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is adaptation?

22. Principles of Natural Selection - 400
There must be ________ within the species.
What is variation (or differences)?

23. Principle of Natural Selection - 500 What is natural selection?
Organisms with helpful variations are better suited to survive and reproduce. Over time the offspring with helpful variations increase and become a larger percentage of the population.
What is natural selection?

24. Sherlock Holmes - 100
Scientists can tell how closely organisms are related by comparing their...
What is DNA or genes?

25. Provides direct evidence that living things have changed over time.
Sherlock Holmes - 200
Provides direct evidence that living things have changed over time.
What are fossils?

26. What are Homologous Structures?
Sherlock Holmes - 300
Body parts in different species that are similar in origin and structure.
What are Homologous Structures?

27. What is Vestigial Structures?
Sherlock Holmes - 400
Body part(s) in modern organisms with no apparent function, but were once functional in an ancestor.
What is Vestigial Structures?

28. Study of organisms in their earliest stages of development.
Sherlock Holmes - 500
Study of organisms in their earliest stages of development.
What is Embryology?

29. What is a branching diagram?
Junk Drawer - 100
shows evolutionary relationships between species as well as what derived characteristics they share.
What is a branching diagram?

30. When all the individuals of a particular species dies off.
Junk Drawer - 200
When all the individuals of a particular species dies off.
What is extinction?

31. Separation, adaptations & reproductive isolation can result in…
Junk Drawer - 300
Separation, adaptations & reproductive isolation can result in…
What is speciation?

32. _____ ___ ______ can cause extinction.
Junk Drawer - 400
Increase in competition over resources, introduction of new predators &
_____ ___ ______ can cause extinction.
What is loss of habitat?

33. The platypus and the brown bear share what common characteristic…
Junk Drawer - 500
The platypus and the brown bear share what common characteristic…
What is hair & mammary glands?

34. True or False - 100
Classification is putting things into groups based on characteristics organisms share.
What is true?

35. Variations (both helpful & harmful) begin as mutations.
True or False - 200
Variations (both helpful & harmful) begin as mutations.
What is true?

36. Evolution is happening even today.
True or False - 300
Evolution is happening even today.
What is true?

37. True or False - 400
Variations give a species a better chance of surviving & reproducing if their environment changes.
What is true?

38. What is false? (homologous structures)
True or False - 500
The bone structure in a human’s arm, a bird’s wing and a cat’s leg are examples of Vestigial Structures.
What is false? (homologous structures)

39. Daily Double