Fossil Evidence of 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 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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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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Adaptation

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

• Is an inherited trait that increases the organism’s chance of surviving and reproducing in its environment.

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

• The resemblance of one species to another species.

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Camouflage

• The breeding of organisms for desired characteristics.

• 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.

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

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Mimicry

• The resemblance of one species to another species.

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

• Is an inherited trait that increases the organism’s chance of surviving and reproducing in its environment.

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

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Selective Breeding

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

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

• The breeding of organisms for desired characteristics.

• The resemblance of one species to another species.

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In an undisturbed rock formation, the rocks on the bottom are the oldest.

• True

• False

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If you are an archaeologist digging, you can assume which of the following according to relative-age dating?

• That a fossil found above another fossil is older

• That a fossil found below another fossil is older

• The exact time period that organism lived in

• The type of isotope found in the fossil

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