Evolution and fossils

to blend in or hide by making something hard to see.

• hide and seek

• camouflage

• natural selection

• extinct

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in biology, changes that happen over time in the gene pool of a population. Changes from monkey to man is an example.

• mutation

• evolution

• natural selection

• disease

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When a animal or species no longer is alive or is killed off.

• mutation

• natural selection

• extinct

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the remains or traces of a plant or animal that lived in another geologic age. They have been preserved in earth or rock.

• evolution

• rock strata

• extinct

• Fossil

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a sudden change in the genes of an organism. It can cause abnormal physical traits.

• mutation

• natural selection

• extinction

• darwin idea of evolution

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the process of evolution by which forms of life that are better adapted to their specific environment survive and reproduce more often than those that are less well adapted

Survival of the fittest!!

• natural selection

• extinction

• fight club

• evolution

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to keep living; to continue existing.

• extinct

• fossil

• survive

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an idea that explains something, but may or may not be right.

• evolution

• theory

• fossil

A ______________________ is a scientist who studies fossils.

• biologist

• chemist

• paleontologist

• astronomer

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In the model are rock strata and fossils. The fish fossil is in the first layer of the rock strata, is this the youngest or oldest fossil in these rock strata layers?

• Youngest

• Oldest

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