Unit 5 Vocab

A characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Species

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A group of organisms that can mate with one another to produce offpsring.

• Species

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The process by which populations gradually change over time.

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Fossil Record

• Trait

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The remains of an organism that lived long ago. Most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock.

• Fossil Record

• Fossil

• Species

• Selective Breeding

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Historical sequence of life indicated by fossils found in layers of the Earth's crust.

• Fossil

• Fossil Record

• Selective Breeding

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Characteristic that can be passed from parent to offspring through genes.

• Trait

• Selective Breeding

• Species

• Fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

the human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired traits.

• natural selection

• selective breeding

• trait

• speciation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-5

The process whereby organisms that are better adapted to the environment survive and reproduce passing their genes to offspring.

• adaptation

• selective breeding

• natural selection

The formation of a new species as a result of macroevolution.

• speciation

• fossil

• natural selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Naturalist credited with the theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.

• Robert Hooke

• Charles Darwin

• Francis Crick

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4