Unit 3 Evolution

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

Back

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

Front

Which part of an animal's body will leave the best fossils?

Back

Teeth.

Front

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

Back

Extinction.

Front

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

Back

increase in number.

Front

Which is not a part of Darwin's Theory?

Back

All dogs are well suited to the natural environment.

Front

What is evolution?

Back

The process by which different kinds of living organisms develop and diversify from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

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What is natural selection?

Back

The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

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Define adaptation in the context of evolution.

Back

A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

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What is a fossil?

Back

The preserved remains or traces of a once-living organism.

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What does the term 'extinct' mean?

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A species that no longer has any living members.