Vocabulary

Remains, Impressions, or traces of an organism that lived in the past

• Sedimentary layers

• Fossils

• Diversity

• Extinction

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The state of no longer existing

• Sedimentary Layers

• Fossils

• Diversity

• Extinction

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The total number of fossils that have been discovered and the information derived from them is called the ______________

• Fossil record

• chronological order

• timeline

• radioactive dating

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Organisms that share a common ancester

• common ancestry

• extinction

• that one thing

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When a species no longer exists.

• Extinction

• Diversity

• Radioactive dating

• no such thing

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The process by which organisms develop traits that allow organisms to survive over time by adapting to change in their environment is called _____________________________.

• species

• evolution

• natural selection

• chronological sequence

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The word population is described as . . . . . . . . .

• groups of individuals of the same species living in the same area.

• groups of individuals of different species living in the different areas.

• groups of individual fossils.

• groups of remains, impressions or trace of living things.

Evolve refers to the . . . . . . .

• organism classification.

• a group of animals

• change or develop gradually over time.

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What is chronological sequence?

• overproduction.

• natural differences.

• traits that help organism survive.

• The order of events in which one thing follows another in time.

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Environmental changes may lead to the evolution of species. Polar bears live in the Arctic. Ice in the Arctic is melting fast, reducing the range where the polar bear can live. If polar bears do not have adaptions that allow them to survive these changes, what may happen to them?

• They may become extinct.

• They may overpopulate.

• They may change the environment.

• They may become another species.

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