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Fossils
Geologic
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Selection
Evolution
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Fossils 100
Definition of a fossil.
What is mineralized remains of
something that once was living?
Fossils 200
Characteristic of organisms that
are best preserved as fossils.
What is hard-bodied?
Fossils 300
A type of fossil including frozen
organisms in ice or amber.
What is preserved intact?
Fossils 400
Empty space filled in with
minerals to form a fossil.
What is a cast?
Fossils 500
How a fossil is formed (4 steps).
What is: animal dies and then is covered by
sediment, rock, dirt etc, the organism’s
hard body parts are replaced by minerals
and then the fossil is uplifted and exposed?
Geologic Time 100
Definition of geologic
time.
What is the history of the Earth?
Geologic Time 200
Age of the Earth.
What is 4.6 billion years?
Geologic Time 300
Name of this type of image.
What is a stratigraphic column?
Geologic Time 400
The comparable age of an organism near
the top of the fossil index.
What is younger than an organism found
deeper?
Geologic Time 500
The law of superposition.
What is if something is closer to the
surface of the Earth it is more recent
or younger?
Natural Selection 100
Scientist who theorized Natural
Selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Natural Selection 200
What Darwin said parents could pass
on to their offspring.
What are genetic traits?
Natural Selection 300
Definition of variance.
What are differences in a species?
Food Webs 400
Definition of natural selection.
What is an organism is better
suited to the environment and
gets to pass on its traits
because is survives long
enough to reproduce?
Natural Selection 500
Detailed example of natural selection.
One possible answer: What is green and beige
worms live in green grass. The green worms
blend in with the grass and are eaten less often
than the beige worms. More green worms live
long enough to reproduce and pass on their green
traits. Soon, the worm population is green. .
Evolution 100
Definition of extinction.
What is when all living
members of a species die out
with no surviving offspring?
Evolution 200
Definition of endangered.
What is when there are so few of a
species that they are in danger of
becoming extinct?
Evolution 300
Definition of evolution.
What is change over a long period of time?
Evolution 400
Definition of mutation.
What is a change in the copying of DNA?
Evolution 500
Two ways to tell if two species are
related.
What are DNA evidence and similar body
structure (such as upper arm)?
Surprise 100
Scientist who studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
Surprise 200
Definition of adaptation.
What is characteristic that helps an organism
survive in their habitat?
Surprise 300
How Lamark though evolution worked.
What is an organism would acquire a trait
to help it survive and then pass on the
acquired trait?
Surprise 400
The difference between and
observation and an inference.
What is an observation is something
you learn from your senses and an
inference is an assumption or
conclusion based on the observation?
Surprise 500
Three differences between the African
and Asian Elephant.
What are the African elephants are
bigger, have bigger ears, a single
domed forehead, and male and
female have tusks?