Darwin ch 17.1 & 17.2

Charles Darwin is a British naturalist that is best known for his ideas of Evolution by the process of ___

• natural selection

• artification selection

• fitness

• speciation

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Charles Darwin traveled on the HMS ______ as a naturalist and visited the __________ where he got some of his ideas.

• Snoopy and Galapagos Islands

• Beagle and Hawaiian Islands

• Snoopy and Hawaiian Islands

• Beagle and Galapagos Islands

Darwin read books written by _______ and ______. Geologists who said the Earth was formed by geological processes over millions of years. (Pick two)

• James Hutton

• Jean Baptiste-LeMarck

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Russel Wallace

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Darwin read books written by ____ with his Theory of Acquired Traits. Darwin disagreed with the idea that acquired traits could be passed down.

• James Hutton

• Jean Baptiste-LeMarck

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Russel Wallace

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Darwin completed his book but did not decide to publish it until he received a letter from ______ discussing his theory of natural selection.

• James Hutton

• Jean Baptiste-LeMarck

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Russel Wallace

Darwin said having a trait that makes you better suited to the environment is having a high degree of ____

• variation

• fitness

• naturalist

• theology

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Darwin's job on the ship was being a _____

• captain

• medicine

• naturalist

• theology

Darwin's book was published in 1859 and was called Origin of the ___.

• Variation

• Evolution

• Species

• Adaptation

Darwin went to college and studied medicine then ___

• natural history

• medicine

• natural science

• theology

Darwin and his wife _____ married and had 10 children

• Emma

• Susanna

• Annie

• Steve