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Evolution Unit Review Sheet
1) What is a species?
2) What is an adaptation? Give some specific examples
3) What is evolution?
4) How does evolution happen?
5) What is the fossil record?
6) How does the fossil record provide evidence for evolution?
7) What are the limitations of the fossil record?
8) What evidence do scientists use to determine if organisms have a common ancestor?
9) Describe how modern whales may have evolved from ancient land mammals.
10) What are homologous structures? Give examples
11) What are analogous structures? Give examples
12) What are vestigial structures? Give examples
13) Where are fossils most commonly found?
14) How do scientists determine the age of a fossil?
15) Who was Charles Darwin?
16) Describe Darwin’s observations about the Galapagos finches.
17) How did Lyell’s work influence Darwin?
18) How did Malthus’s work influence Darwin?
19) What is selective breeding?
20) Describe the four parts of natural selection?
21) How have elephant populations changed over time?
22) How does insecticide resistance occur?
23) How does competition for mates select for adaptations?
24) What is generation time?
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25) How does generation time influence the rate of evolution?
26) What is speciation?
27) Describe separation and give examples of some ways it can happen.
28) How can adaptation lead to new species?
29) Describe division.
30) How do scientists know when a new species has formed?
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