Evolution

Question 1

What is Science?

Answer 1

It is the knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Question 2

What is Evolution?

Answer 2

Is the Change in the genetic compostion of population overtime.

Question 3

What is Microevolution

Answer 3

It is a slight change within a species, but stays as the same species

Question 4

What is Macroevolution?

Answer 4

It is a change within a species that results in the formation of new species

Question 5

What is Evolutionary theory?

Answer 5

It is understanding and applying the processes of evolutionary change
to biological problems

Question 6

What does Evolutionary theory help us understand?

Answer 6

• This helps us predict changes within the biological world
• study treatment and disease
• Development of crops and industrial processes
• Understanding diversification of life

Question 7

What is the Scientific Theory?

Answer 7

It is a hypothesis based on a large body of knowledge

Question 8

Who is Karl Popper?

Answer 8

defined falsification and believed observations can falsify theories

Question 9

What should I know about science?

Answer 9

it is supported by other sources, is testable, is not set
in stone (it is always changing), and can never prove a theory true

Question 10

What can Science do?

Answer 10

Science can change over time theories can be disproven as more information is
collected

Question 11

How do we know that humans are responsible for the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere?

Answer 11

Since fossil fuels take a long time to form, all C14 has already decayed because of its short half life, so fossil fuels
are left with a high C12 content

Question 12

What is the Suess Effect?

Answer 12

This is when the carbon we are releasing (C12)
from fossil fuels is going up while the natural
carbon (C14) is going down

Question 13

Who is Charles Darwin?

Answer 13

• a naturalist who came up with a
  mechanism (natural selection) to explain evolution while going to the
  Galapagos islands

Question 14

What is Divergent species

Answer 14

separate species that share a common ancestor

Question 15

Who is Charles Lyell

Answer 15

founded uniformitarianism
(same slow forces that shaped the Earth are still operating
today)

Question 16

Who is Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 16

would name different species based on a classification on their looks
Created the idea of binomial nomenclature (didn’t believe in evolution)

Question 17

Who is Georges Cuvier

Answer 17

founder of catastrophism (extinction)

Question 18

Who is James Hutton

Answer 18

The father of geology and thought that the Earth leads to crust expansion and to rock stratifications that tilt, fold, and deform to make sediment layers

Question 19

Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Answer 19

The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics (Traits can be acquired and inherited by future generations)

Question 20

Who is Thomas Robert Malthus?

Answer 20

The exponential nature of population growth is based on the resources it has (A population is limited to the resources)

Question 21

What did Darwin not have access to when creating the idea of evolution?

Answer 21

The idea of genes

Question 22

Who is Alfred Russel Wallace ?

Answer 22

Independently proposed a theory of evolution due to natural selection ( influenced Darwin)