Amplify Evolutionary History Vocabulary

a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• speciation

• adaptive trait

• evolution

• shared structures

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a related organism from a previous generation

• ancestor

• decendant

• stability

• species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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

• body structure

• shared structure

• species

• paleontologist

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

an older population from which two or more newer species descended

• common ancestor population

• descendant species

• environment

• evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population

• descendant species

• common ancestor population

• diagnose

• evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

to classify based on scientific examination

• diagnose

• environment

• fossil

• inherit

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• environment

• evolution

• diagnose

• fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• evolution

• related

• speciation

• inherit

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-6

the very long time that spans the history of Earth, from the very first cellular life to the present

• evolutionary time

• evolution

• extinct

• evolve

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth

• extinct

• histogram

• trait

• stability

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1