Evolution Vocabulary Quiz Review

Any living thing - plant, animal, human, bacteria, etc

• Evolution
• Organism
• Fossils
• Mutation

A process through which a species that are better adapted to its environment will produce more offspring than other species that do not have this adaptation. Also known as the 'survival of the fittest.'

• Natural selection
• Fossil record
• Geologic time scale
• Camouflage

A scientist that studies fossils.

• Paleontologist
• Camouflage
• Evolution
• Geologic time scale

An organism that no longer exists.

• Trait
• Offspring
• Evolution
• Extinct

A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce offspring.

• Paleontologist
• Fossil
• Offspring
• Species

Product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents

• Exinct
• Offspring
• Camouflage
• Trait

An observable characteristic of an organism - such as shape, size, color, etc - that was inherited from its parents.

• Offspring
• Extinct
• Adaptation
• Trait

The study of how organisms change over time.

• Paleontology
• Biology
• Evolution
• Natural Selection

A record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history.

• Fossils
• Paleontology
• Geologic time scale
• Fossil record

A term used to describe all the fossils that have been discovered on earth as well as the information scientists can get from them.

• Geology
• Fossil record
• Evolution
• Natural selection