Evidences of Evolution Test Review 2022

A change in a species over time is

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Diversity

• Morphology

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The variety of species present in an area

• Population

• Diversity

• Biogeography

• Adaptation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Survival of the fittest. The organism that is best able to survive and passes on its genes in the gene pool.

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Law of Superposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

organs or skeletal elements of animals and organisms that, by virtue of their similarity, suggest their connection to a common ancestor. These structures do not have to look exactly the same, or have the same function.

• Analogous Structure

• Homologous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Molecular Homology

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A group of one type of species (all blue crabs, all white tail deer, all yellow corn)

• species

• population

• community

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The form and structure of an organisms traits, its characteristics.

• Molecular Homology

• Embryology

• Morphology

• Phylogony

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Similar embryological development in different organisms indicating a common ancestry or evolutionary origin.

• Molecular Homology

• Morphology

• Adaptation

• Embryology

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

Preserved remains or evidence of ancient organism.

• Vestigial Structure

• Fossils

• Homologous structure

• Analogous structure

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A characteristic of different organisms that have similar function but not necessarily the same structure and did not come from the same common ancestor.

• Homologous Structure

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Fossils

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

States that layers of sediment and rock are older at the bottom levels of younger as they move up to the surface.

• Fossils

• Law of Superposition

• Vestigial Structure

• Adaptation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4