Evolution Vocabulary Quiz

All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor.

• Generations

• Fossil Record

• Populations

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Characteristics or attributes of an organism that are expressed by genes.

• Extinction

• Genetic Variation

• Traits

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Variation of life forms present in different ecosystems

• Natural selection

• Diversity

• Probability

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A group of individuals of the same species living & interbreeding within a given area.

• Fossil Record

• Populations

• Diversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The remains or imprints of organisms from earlier geological periods preserved in sedimentary rock.

• Fossil Record

• Environmental Factors

• Genetic Variations

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The act of living or continuing longer than another person or thing.

• Survival

• Probability

• Factors

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Process through which populations of living organisms adapt & change.

• Diversity

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Variation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The state or fact of existing; being.

• Successive

• Evidence

• Existence

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Following in order or uninterrupted sequence.

• Successive

• Evidence

• Generations

The presence of differences in sequences of genes between individual organisms of a species.

• Fossil Record

• Environmental Factors

• Genetic Variation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4