Life Changes Over Time

Who was the scientist that traveled to the Galapagos Islands to study plants and animals and is considered the Father of Evolution?

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Barkley

• Isaac Newton

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Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.

• Evolution

• Variations

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

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Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce; also called survival of the fittest.

• Evolution

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

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When a species no longer has any known living individuals.

• Adaption

• Extinction

• Fossilization

• Mutation

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A trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.

• Extinctions

• Fossils

• Mutations

• Variations

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What is another name for natural selection?

• survival of the smartest
• survival of the fastest
• survival of the biggest
• survival of the fittest

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Random changes in genetic material that cause genetic diversity

• Mutations

• Adaptations

• Genetic Drift

• Variations

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differences, variety; many different types of forms

• Adaptations

• Fossils

• Evolution

• Diversity

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A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce.

• Fossil

• Adaptation

• Ancestor

• Natural selection

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A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.

• Species

• Fossils

• Ancestors

• Variations