Early Study of Evolution

Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Barkley

• Isaac Newton

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The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution

• Nucleotide 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

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Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  

• become extinct
  

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.

• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.

• To protect itself against predators.

• To protect itself against prey.

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Remains of ancient organisms are called

• Extinctions

• Fossils

• Mutations

• Variations

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To adjust to a changing environment

• Mutation

• Adapt

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When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption

• Extinction

• Fossilization

• Mutation

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The struggle for existence against other members of an organisms species is

• Competition

• Natural Selection

• gene flow

• genetic drift

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Change over time; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.

• Species

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Fossil

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A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.

• Species

• Domain

• Adaptation

• Genus

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