Evolutionary History Vocabulary and Main Idea

Having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on earth.

• generation

• ancestor

• extinct

• evolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A group of organisms of the same kind that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group.

• paleontologist

• species

• ancestor

• limb

A related organism from a previous generation

• ancestor

• shared structure

• generation

• evolution

A body structure in two or more species that features the same parts.

• ancestor

• generation

• fossil

• shared structure

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Evidence of life from the past such as fossilized bones, foot prints or leaf prints

• body structure

• fossil

• evolution

• paleontologist

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time

• evolution

• species

• limb

• ancestor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

an organism's arm, leg or wing

• extinct

• limb

• evolution

• paleontologist

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A scientist who studies fossils

• species

• anthropologist

• organism

• Paleontologist

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a part of an organism (example- one or more bones)

• body structure

• evolution

• paleontologist

• extinct

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A group of individuals born and living at about the same time (ex. all kids in 7th grade)

• extinct

• ancestor

• generation

• species