Evolution Vocabulary Practice

A British who proposed the theory of biological evolution by natural selection. 

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Robert Hooke

• Carolus Linnaeus

The change in heritable traits of biological populations over successive generations.

• adaptation

• extinction

• fossil

• evolution

Theory is based on a body of facts and is not a guess or a hypothesis, but a well-established explanation.

• variation

• natural selection

• population

• Scientific Theory

A trait that makes an organism more likely to survive in their environment.

• adaptation

• variation

• Artificial Selection

• fitness

Dying out of a species.

• adaptation

• relative dating

• extinction

• population

A measure of the relative breeding success of an individual in a given population at a given time.

• Radioactive Dating (Absolute)

• fitness

• variation

• Scientific Theory

Preserved remains of plants and animals

• evolution

• fitness

• variation

• fossil

A recording of history made out of layers of fossils.

• fossil record

• Relative Dating

• natural selection

• adaptation

A method to determine the age of a fossil by comparing which layer it was found in.

• population

• evolution

• Relative Dating

• fossil

A method used by scientists to determine the age of rocks and minerals.

• fossil record

• variation

•   Artificial Selection

• Radioactive Dating (Absolute)