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Question 1

Define Natural Selection

Answer 1

The process by which organisms that are best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce.

Question 2

Define Adaptation

Answer 2

An inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

Question 3

Define Fossil

Answer 3

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.

Question 4

Evolution

Answer 4

Change over time; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.

Question 5

What three factors affect natural selection

Answer 5

Variation, over-production, competition

Question 6

Competition

Answer 6

The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources in the same place at the same time.

Question 7

Species

Answer 7

A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce

Question 8

Artificial Selection

Answer 8

The process by which humans breed organisms with desired traits to produce the next generation; selective breeding

Question 9

Homologous Structures

Answer 9

Structures that are similar in different species and that have been inherited from a common ancestor.

Question 10

Charles Darwin

Answer 10

A british naturalist who went on a boat called the Beagle to the Galapagos Islands and saw that different variations of animals, and discovered that they all and a common ancestor, and came up with the theory of Natural Selection.

Question 11

People that helped prove evolution

Answer 11

Linnaeus, Lamarck, Anning, Lyell, Charles Darwin.