Darwin's Observations Speciation Terms Natural Selection Terms
100
What is the term used for the evidence of change over time?
Evolution
100
What is the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution.
Speciation
100
What is the term used for the remains of living things that have been preserved over time?
Fossil
200
What is the term that describes the different geographical locations that different type of species exist?
Biomes
200
What is a a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding?
Species
200
What is the theory that explains the origin and change of living things over time?
Evolution
300
____ is when species have traits that help with their survival, in their ____ which is a particular environment they live in.
Adaptations and Ecosystem
300
What is a group within a species having a distinctive appearance and typically having been developed by deliberate selection.
Breed
300
What is the permanent disappearance of a species?
Extinction
400
What is the term that describes the relationship between individuals with favorable traits among a population will excel past those with unfavorable traits.
Survival of the Fittest
400
Two populations must be _____ ________ in order for differences in alleles frequencies to develop and remain.
Reproductively Isolated
400
What is a change in a cell's genetic material?
Mutation
500
What is it called when the individuals with favorable traits survive and reproduce, passing on their favorable traits, adapting and making new species that are evolved to their new environments.
Natural Selection
500
What is is called when geographic isolation prevents two populations from mating?
Allopatric Speciation
500
What is the theory of evolution by natural selection called that is credited to Charles Darwin?
Darwinism






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