Evolution

What is Evolution?

• Evolution is that all living organisms were created in their current form

• Evolution is the process of animals turning into plants.
• Evolution is the process by which different kinds of living organisms have changed over time

• Evolution is the process of creating new species from scratch.

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Organize these terms under the correct Scientist

Groups:

(a) Jean Lamarck

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(b) Charles Darwin

• Inheritance of Favorable Traits

• Survival of the fittest

• Inheritance of Aquired Characteristics

• Natural Slection

• Need

• Use

• Disuse

• Overproduction

• Competition

• Variations

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Match the following Natural Selection Term with the definition

• Favorable traits help organism survive

• Inheritance of Favorable Traits

• Fighting for food, water or mates

• Overproduction

• Differences in a population

• Survival of the Fittest

• More offspring made so some survive

• Variation

• Reproduce to pass on good trait

• Competition

Identify the process that causes variations to appear in offspring

• Mutations

• Diffusion

• Replication

• Photosynthesis

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Where does the mutation have to occur in order for Evolution to occur?

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Organisms that reproduce ​ (a)   and live in a ​ (b)   environment will evolve.

• quickly
• changing
• slowly
• stable

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Example of organisms that evolve in short periods of time

• Bacteria

• Plants

• Elephants

• Insects

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In order for Evolution to occur there must be ______ within a species

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Reorder the following to represent how Evolution on Earth occured

• Simple organisms appear

• Diversity of Multicellular organisms increase

• Multicellular organisms evolve

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Which statement explains the changes shown in the graph

• Species A is better adapted to theenvironment

• Species A is a predator

• Species B is better adapted to the environment

• Species B is a predator

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