Unit 7: Evolutionary History

a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• Adaptive Trait

• Body Structure

• Mutation

• Limb

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a related organism from a previous generation

• Ancestor

• Fossil

• Paleontologist

• Species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

a part of an organism (for example, one or more bones)

• Body Structure

• Histogram

• Mutation

• Diagnose

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

an older population from which two or more newer species descended

• Common Ancestor Population

• Descendant Species

• Population

• Related

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

a more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population

• Descendant Species

• Common Ancestor Population

• Extinct

• Organisms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

to classify based on scientific examination

• Diagnose

• Inherit

• Histogram

• Related

everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• Environment

• Population

• Evolutionary Time

• Histogram

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

the process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time

• Evolution

• Extinction

• Mutation

• Diagnose

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

the very long time that spans the history of Earth, from the very first cellular life to the present

• Evolutionary History

• Ancestor

• Natural Selection

• Speciation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth

• Extinct

• Fossil

• Trait

• Species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1