Early ideas of evolution

Question 1

Catastrophism

Answer 1

Earth experienced many destructive catastrophic events (floods, droughts, etc) which caused the extinction of species that were then replaced by new species from a region nearby

Question 2

Uniformitarianism

Answer 2

Geological changes are slow and continuous (not catastrophic) and that slow subtle
changes can result in substantial change

Question 3

Line of Descent

Answer 3

Old fossils lead to modern species and species increase in complexity overtime

Question 4

Inheritance of Acquired traits

Answer 4

organisms become better adapted to their environments and body parts used most
often become stronger. Then this trait is passed on to their offspring.

Question 5

Survival of the fittest

Answer 5

organisms compete for limited resources. Organisms with favorable traits that
help them survive will have an increased chance of reproduction. If they reproduce, a growing number
of the population will have these traits in later generations

Question 6

Descent with modification

Answer 6

theory that natural selection does not demonstrate progress but results in
the ability to survive local environmental conditions

Question 7

Natural selection

Answer 7

the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change. Individuals in a population are naturally variable, meaning that they are all different in some ways. This variation means that some individuals have traits better suited to the environment than others.