4.2 Vocabulary Flashcards

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What is a Hypothesis?

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A statement that provides answer to a question, or one possible explanation for an observation.

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What is Natural Selection?

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A growing proportion of the population would have these traits in later generation and as time passed, the population as a whole world have them.

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What is a Theory?

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A well-supported, widely accepted explanation for the events in the natural world.

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What is a Law?

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A statement that describes a natural phenomena.

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What is the definition of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics?

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The theory that characteristics acquired during an organism’s lifetime could be passed to its offspring.

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What is the definition of a Fossil?

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The remains of past life found in sedimentary rock.

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What is the definition of Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?

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A well-supported, widely accepted explanation of how species have changed, and continue to change, during Earth’s history as a result of natural selection.

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What is the definition of Paleontology?

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The study of ancient life through the examination of fossils.

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What is the definition of Gradualism?

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Gradual change occurs in a steady, linear way of time.

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What is Punctuated Equilibrium?

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Evolutionary history is said to consist of long periods of equilibrium, interrupted by periods of speciation.

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