Download Unity and Diversity Review

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What you need
◦ White board
◦ Dry Erase Marker
◦ Eraser
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I will put a question up on the board
Write down the answer on the dry erase board
Hold it up when finished
I will check your answer
◦ If correct put a tally mark in the corner of your
board.
What
is the
gradual change in
species over time?
 Survival
of the fittest can
also be referred to as?
 What
are the two main goals of
every living organism,
according to natural selection?
 Who
was one of the main
founding fathers of the
theory of evolution?
 What
was the name of the
ship that Darwin used in his
voyage?
 What
was one of the main
stops Darwin made on his
voyage?
 Name
an organism that
Darwin found along his
voyage.
 Besides
looking at living
organisms, what else did
Darwin look at?
 What
is the difference
among individuals of a
species?
 What
variation do humans
select those variations they
find useful?
 What
are organs that serve no
useful function in an
organism?
 Earth
has millions of other kinds
of organisms of every imaginable
shape, size, and habitat. This
variety of living things is called
what?
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What is the results in changes in inherited
characteristics of a population; these
changes increase a species fitness in its
environment?
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Put the following in the correct order (oldest
to youngest) using the principals of relative
dating?
 What
is the process to determine
the absolute ages of rocks by
measuring the amounts of parent
and daughter materials in a rock
and by knowing the half-life of
the parent?
 What
are two ways to
date rocks?
 What
is the correct order of
geological eras from oldest to
youngest?
 What
is the longest era of
geological time?
 What
was a major
geological event that
happened during the
Precambrian Era?
 What
era is the “Era of
Recent Life”?
 Organisms
with opposable
thumbs, binocular vision, and
flexible shoulders are known
as what?
 What
was special about Lucy
(earliest hominid,
Australopithecus)?
 Who
lived in caves, were short
with heavy bodies, and small
chins? They also lived in
families and hunted with stone
tools.
 What
is the meaning of
homo sapiens?
 What
is the study of
development in organisms;
compare embryos of different
species?
 What
major geological
event happened in the
Mesozoic era?
 What
law says that the oldest
rock layer is on the bottom
and the youngest rock layer is
on top?
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A fracture or a fault is an example of this.
It cuts through rock layers.
It is younger than the layers it cuts through
 What
is it called when one rock
body contains fragments of
another rock body?
 What
is an example of
artificial selection?
In your science notebook, relate this
quote by Darwin to the Theory of
Evolution and your own life.