Evolution Year 6

Evolution is...

• When a species gets bigger and stronger

• Part of an animal that it uses to survive

• A change in an organism's characteristics over time

• Found in the DNA of animals

The dodo is an animal that used to exist on Mauritius. As they are not found alive today, they are:

• Endangered

• Extinct

• Threatened

• Declining

Why is the fossil record strong evidence for evolution?

• Because we see changes in fossils over time

• Because the animals in fossils are all extinct

• Because fossils are millions of years old

• Because we see the same animals in fossils as we see today

Darwin studied why finches have different shaped beaks. The finch's beak is....?

• A mutation

• A habitat

• A fossil

• An adaptation

Selective breeding is evidence for evolution because....

• There are many different types of wolves

• We see that a creature's characteristics can change with time

• We can see there are many types of fossil

• Charles Darwin discovered it

Which fossils will be the oldest?

• The fossils at the top layer

• The fossils at the bottom layer

• The fossils in the middle layer

• They are all the same age

This lady has dyed her hair. This is....

• An environmental characteristic

• An inherited characteristic

What information could we find out from this bird from a fossil?

• What colour it was

• How many feathers it had

• Where it lived

• What it sounded like

The snowy owl has many a beak, talons and white feathers that allow it to survive in the snow. What do we call these body parts?

• Variations

• Characteristics

• Adaptations

• Species

Eye colour is a type of....

• Environmental Characteristic

• Inherited Characteristic