Evolutionary History

Body Structure

• A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive specific environment

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

• Body structure refers only to the skeletal system
• A related organism from a previous generation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

An older population from which two or more newer species descended

• Descendant Species

• Body Structure

• Genetics

• Common Ancestor Population

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population

• Common Ancestor Species

• Descendant Species

• Ancestor

• Genetics

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Evolution

• A group of individuals born around the same time

• Evidence of life from the past

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

• Everything that surrounds an organism

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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

• Evolutionary Times

• Fossil

• Extinct

• Evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A scientist who studies fossils in order to understand the ancient history of life on Earth

• Biologist

• Botanist

• Paleontologist

• Geneticist

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Sharing a common ancestor

• Related

• Natural Selection

• Population

• Generation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A body structure in two or more species that features the same parts (for example, the same bones)

• Vestigial Structure

• Shared (Homologous) Structure

• Speciation Structures

• Population

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The process by which one population evolves into two or more different species

• Shared Structure

• Common Ancestor Population

• Speciation

• Related

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

A group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group

• Generation

• Genetics

• Related

• Species