Fossil Evidence for Evolution

What are fossils?

• Are the remains or evidence of once-living organisms

• Is the change over time in populations of related organisms

• A chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units

• Occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies

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What is the fossil record?

• Are the remains or evidence of once-living organisms

• Is the change over time in populations of related organisms

• Is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• Occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies

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What is a mold?

• The impression of an organism

• Is the preserved evidence of the activity of an organism

• A fossil copy of an organism in a rock

• A chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units

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What is a cast?

• The impression of an organism

• Occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies

• Is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• A fossil copy of an organism in a rock

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What are trace fossils?

• A fossil copy of an organism in a rock

• Is the preserved evidence of the activity of an organism

• The impression of an organism

• Is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

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What is extinction?

• A chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units

• Are the remains or evidence of once-living organisms

• Occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies

• The impression of an organism

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What is the geologic time scale?

• A chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units

• Is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• The impression of an organism

• Is the change over time in populations of related organisms

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What is biological evolution?

• Is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• Is the preserved evidence of the activity of an organism

• Are the remains or evidence of once-living organisms

• Is the change over time in populations of related organisms

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Naturalist

• A person who studies plants and animals by observing them.

• Natural selection is the process where organisms that are best suited to their environment survive and pass on their genetic traits.

• Is an adaptation that enables a species to blend in with its environment.

• The breeding of organisms for desired characteristics.

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Variation

• A person who studies plants and animals by observing them.

• The resemblance of one species to another species.

• Is a slight difference in an inherited trait of individual members of a species.

• The breeding of organisms for desired characteristics.

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