Evolution Vocabulary Test
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Science
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8th Grade
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Vincent Tomassoni
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1.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
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natural selection
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2.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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The gradual change in a species over time
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evolution
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FLASHCARD QUESTION
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A process typically caused by the genetic isolation from a main population resulting in a new genetically distinct species.
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speciation
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4.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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Who wrote On the Origin of Species, which discusses evolution by "natural selection" (the weaker die out)?
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Charles Darwin
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5.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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Preserved remains of once-living organisms
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fossils
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FLASHCARD QUESTION
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The geological record of organisms on earth that have been preserved in the rock in a chronological order (oldest on bottom); evidence of common ancestry
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fossil record
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7.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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Structures that have different mature forms in different organisms but develop from the same embryonic tissues
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homologous structures
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