Vocab for Evolution

Question 1

Artificial selection

Answer 1

Nature provides and humans select the traits we want to breed

Question 2

Natural selection

Answer 2

Nature provides and then the strongest or best suited to survive live to pass on genes

Question 3

Population

Answer 3

A group of individuals of the same species in the same area at the same time

Question 4

Adaptation

Answer 4

any heritable characteristic that increases an organisms ability to survive and reproduce

Question 5

fitness

Answer 5

how well an organism can survive and reproduce in the environment differences in rates of survival

Question 6

uniformitarianism

Answer 6

the mechanisms of change are the same over time and that the same geologic forces of the past are still operating today

Question 7

catastrophism

Answer 7

that events in the past occured suddenly and were caused by different mechanisms then today