Test Flashcards

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Important benefit of this civilization was its spread of education

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Romans

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Man was commanded by God to _____ the earth

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Subdue

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Advocates speciation, founded comparative anatomy

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Cuvier

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3
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Idea of a master race

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Eugenics

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4
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Fossil bird

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Archaeopteryx

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5
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Sequence of fossils in the earth’s crust

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Geologic column

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Unusual lobe fin fish

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Coelacanth

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7
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Sudden outburst of living things

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Cambrian explosion

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Dog sized animal that is an ancestor of the horse

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Eohippus

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9
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1675-Leuwenhoek discovered in microscope

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Animalcules

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10
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Solution to scientific problem

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Hypothesis

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Ernest Heakel proposed as “proof” of evolution

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Embryonic recapitulation

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12
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German evolutionist who came up with embryonic recapitulation

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Ernst Haekel

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13
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Special kind of observation that involves testing theoretical speculation in a controlled and systematic way

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Experimentation

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Involves looking very close at the universe for the purpose of gaining scientific knowledge about it

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Observation

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A quasireligious idea that states that the earth all things constitute a single living thing

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Gaia hypothesis

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Idea that the present is the only key to the past

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Uniformitarianism

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Changes within a particular kind of organisms

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Speciation

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Process by which new kinds of creatures emerge from existing kinds over time

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Macroecolution