Changes Over Time Mutation Quiz

A behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment:

• Adaptation

• Extinction

• Mutation

• Diversity

The gradual change in a species over time:

• Adaptation

• Missing Link

• Evolution

• Fossil

A process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than others:

• Extinction

• Natural Selection

• Homologous Structure

• Radioactive Dating

The variety of organisms that inhabit the Earth:

• Diversity

• Missing Links

• Fossils

• Mutations

The British naturalist who formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection:

• Charles Darwin

• Matthew Roemisch

• Kathy Walker

• Fossil McFossilton

Any difference between organisms of the same species:

• Variation

• Fossils

• Radioactive Dating

• Natural Selection

The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth:

• Missing Links

• Fossils

• Evolution

• Extinction

Gaps in the fossil record:

• Mutations

• Homologous Structures

• Missing Links

• Adaptations

Similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor (example – bones in bird’s wing, dolphin fin, and dog leg are very similar):

• Homologous Structures

• Fossils

• Variations

• Selections

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

• Fossils

• Missing Links

• Diversity

• Evolution