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Question 1

What is Earth called?

Answer 1

The Goldilocks Planet

Question 2

What two phases did life develop over?

Answer 2

Chemical and Biological evolution

Question 3

What is the order of geologic time?

Answer 3

Eon, Era, Period, Epoch

Question 4

Places events in a sequence but does not identify their actual date of occurance

Answer 4

Relative time

Question 5

Identifies the actual dates of geologic events

Answer 5

Absolute time

Question 6

in undistributed sedimentary rocks the oldest rock layers are at the bottom and the youngest are at the top

Answer 6

Law of superdisposition

Question 7

Oldest known fossils?

Answer 7

Stromatolites

Question 8

Hypothesis suggests that periods of extreme glaciation confined life to the equatorial region or deep sea vents

Answer 8

Snowball earth

Question 9

An assemblage of larger and more diverse soft-bodied organisms

Answer 9

Ediacaran biota

Question 10

Species is still living. From an evolutionary perspective , all extant species are successful

Answer 10

Extant

Question 11

Event about 65 mya wiped out three-quarters of plant and animal species on Earth

Answer 11

Cretaceous Paleogene extinction

Question 12

The entire diversity of living organisms in an area and of the genetic variation contained withing species

Answer 12

Biodiversity

Question 13

Prohibits trade and commerce of threatened and endangered species

Answer 13

CITES

Question 14

Wave of speciation that occurs as a new habitat is colonized by a lineage, or in the wake of the extinction of another lineage

Answer 14

Adaptive radiation

Question 15

Fish with wrist bones

Answer 15

Tiktaalik

Question 16

Process of organizing and classifying organisms into certain groups by their differences is called..

Answer 16

Taxonomy

Question 17

Who developed classification?

Answer 17

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 18

Organisms classified from most general group,_____, down to the most specific,____.

Answer 18

Domain, Species

Question 19

The evolutionary history of an organism, is the cornerstone of a branch of biology called systematic taxonomy

Answer 19

Phylogeny

Question 20

as systematic taxonomy is commonly called, is the study of the evolution of biological diversity

Answer 20

Systematics

Question 21

A family tree that shows a hypothesis about the evolutionary relationships thought to exist among groups of organisms

Answer 21

Phylogenetic tree

Question 22

Occurs when two different species share a common ancestor, but have different characteristics from one another

Answer 22

Divergent evolution

Question 23

Occurs when two different species do not share a common ancestor, but have developed similar characteristics through adaptation to similar environmental conditions

Answer 23

Convergent evolution

Question 24

All developed from different original structures

Answer 24

Analogous structures

Question 25

Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationship among a group of organisms

Answer 25

Cladogram