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Threshold 5 Flashcards

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What is periodization?

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When the earth is divided into different chunks of time

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2
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What is DNA?

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All life is made up of it

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What is a biosphere?

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The regions of the atmosphere

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What are the tarigrade species?

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Animals with insane capabilities to survive many impossible events

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What is natural selection?

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Animals adapting and changing to adapt to things

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What is survival of the fittest?

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Animals adapting to there environment that are the most successful

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What is evolution?

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The development of something

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What is a mini threshold?

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Important moments when life got more complex

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What is the tree of life?

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It represents the common ancestor ps of all life on earth

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10
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What is self-maintenance?

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Cruicial to life; eating, survival

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What is self-generation?

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Crucial to life; reproduction

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What was the Permian holocaust?

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A period of mass extinction caused by a super volcano

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13
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What is artificial selection?

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Humans breed animals to there choice of characteristics. AKA: Selective breeding

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What is intelligent design?

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A “creator” made things that can evolve and change. This theory allows beliefs in evolution and they can still have a faith in god

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15
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What is titan?

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A place where scientists think there might be other life

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16
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What happened on 4BYA?

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The archaeon eon/life happened

17
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What happened 500 MYA?

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Complexity of forms

18
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What happened 65 MYA?

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Dino extinction

19
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What happened 475 MYA?

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Grass grew on land

20
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What happened in 1850?

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Charles Darwin

21
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What did Charles Darwin do?

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Charles sailed on the HMS Beagle in the early 1800s. He saw how different animals adapted differently in the Galápagos Islands. Charles posted his theory in a book called origin of species. However his idea wasn’t accepted until the 1900s partly due from religious groups.

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Who is Carl Linnaeus?

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A man who discovered about 1 million species. He was around 1750

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