Evolution for 7th grade

An organism changes a feature to better suited the environment it’s in.  an inherited trait that increases and organism changes of survival (camouflage).

• addaption

• variation

• compotetion

• natural selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A term used to describe the difference in our DNA sequence in each of our genomes

• trait

• genetic variation

• extinction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The process of removing a substance from one or more other substances

• extinction

• separation

• isolation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

selective breeding

• In the early 1800s a small black moth was found in Manchester for the first time

• The evolutionary effect seen in several animal species that live in habitat darkened by industrial pollution 

• Choosing parents with desirable characteristics to get a offspring with what you would like.

Your physical characteristics.

• extinction

• separation

• trait

• isolation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The age of a rock or other specimen can be estimated from the remaining amount of a radioisotope it contains and the radioisotope's known rate of decay, or half-life.

• law of super position

• index fossil

• radioactive dating

• fossil record

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

true or false, an index fossil is a plant or animal fossil

• false

• true

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The age of a rock or other specimen can be estimated from the remaining amount of a radioisotope it contains and the radioisotope's known rate of decay, or half-life.

• radioactive dating

• fossil record

• law of super position

• Charles Darwin

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The process of an organism changing over time. Specifically, a change in the frequency of a gene or allele in a population over time

• adaption

• theory

• evolution

• survival of the fittest

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Its not based on DNA its based on what is seen. They will always go after the weaker version of what they are going after.

• adaption

• selection

• overproduction

• species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4