science 7 2nd

Question 1

adaption

Answer 1

a charichteristic that improve an individuals ability to survive and reproduce in a particular in a specific envierment

Question 2

species

Answer 2

a group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring

Question 3

Evolution

Answer 3

this procces in which inheareted characteristics within a population change over generations such that new species sometimes arise

Question 4

Fossil

Answer 4

The remains or physical evidence of an organism preserved by geological process

Question 5

Fossil records

Answer 5

A historical sequence of life indicated by fossils found in layers of the Earth’s crust

Question 6

Trait

Answer 6

Genetically determined characteristic

Question 7

Selective breeding

Answer 7

The human practice of breeding animals or plants that have a certain desired characteristic

Question 8

Natural selection

Answer 8

The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted individuals do a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution

Question 9

Generation time

Answer 9

A period between the birth of one generation and the birth of the Next Generation

Question 10

Speciation

Answer 10

The formation of a new species as a result of evolution

Question 11

Relative dating

Answer 11

Any method of determining weather and event or object is older or younger than your other events or objects

Question 12

Absolute dating

Answer 12

any method of measuring the age of an object or event in years

Question 13

Geologic time scale

Answer 13

Standard method used to divide the Earth’s long natural history into manageable Parts

Question 14

Extinct

Answer 14

Scribes a species that has died out completely

Question 15

Plate tectonics

Answer 15

The theory that explains how large pieces of the Earth outermost layer called tectonic plates move and change shape

Question 16

Primate

Answer 16

Of mammal characterized by opposable thumbs and binocular vision

Question 17

Hominand

Answer 17

Of primate characterized by biodependence relatively long lower limbs and the back of a tail

Question 18

Homo sapiens

Answer 18

The species of hominins that includes modern humans and their closest ancestors that first appeared about $100,000 to 160,000 years ago