Evolution and Natural Selection Review

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Change over time...

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Evolution

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Charles Darwin came up with this theory.

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Natural Selection

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To adjust to a changing environment

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Adapt

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

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increase in number

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Adapt

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change

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What characteristic did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?

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Their beaks

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Term for the process by which individuals better suited to the environment survive and reproduce, passing down their genes.

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Natural Selection

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

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Extinction

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A CHANGE OVER TIME in a species due to changes in the environment is called ______________.

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evolution

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The specialized eye types of the owl and rabbit are examples of...

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adaptations for survival