Evolution Vocab Review

Body parts that are structurally similar in related species and that provide evidence of a common ancestor.

• Half Life

• Fossils

• Evolution

• Homologous Structures

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The time it takes for half of the atoms in a radioactive element to decay.

• Half Life

• Fossils

• Relative Dating

• Absolute Dating

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.

• Adaptation

• Relative Dating

• Fossils

• Evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The process by which populations accumulate changes gradually over time.

• Adaptation

• Relative Dating

• Homologous Structures

• Evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-6

A trait that lets an organism survive or reproduce

• Fossils

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Half Life

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Determining whether an object, such as a fossil or event, such as an ice age is younger or older than events or objects.

• Absolute dating

• Relative dating

• Half life

• Evolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The theory that evolution occurs slowly but steadily.

• Gradualism

• Punctuated equilibria

• Half Life

• Adaptation

The theory that species evolve during short periods of rapid change.

• Gradualism

• Punctuated equilibrium

• Adaptation

• Half Life

A process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than others of the same species.

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Darwin

• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth.

• Missing Link

• Fossil

• Extinction

• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1