Darwin Quiz

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Who prompted Darwin to publish?

Wallace

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Geologists who suggested the earth was millions of years old

Hutton and Lyell

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The idea that the processes changing out earth today are the same ones changing our earth in the past is by

Lyell

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The idea that layers of rock change and form over time is by

Hutton

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Characteristics of Vestigial structures

reduced in size, not in use today, have lost an ancestral function

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Homologous features are due to…

species sharing a common ancestor

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Characteristics of fossils

10,000 years old, preserved or impressed part of living things, made of rocks, minerals or fossilized tree resin

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Evolution

Change over time

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Fossil

preserved remains of ancient organisms

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Book of Geology

By Lyell in 1830 that Darwin took on the boat

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Where did Darwin not visit?

Antartica, Asia, North America

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Africa

Ostrich

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s.America

Rhea

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Australia

Emu

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What did different beaks suggest?

finches had different food and diets

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Isabela Island Tortoise

short neck

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Hood Island Tortoise

long neck

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2 ways geology influenced darwin

since earth could change over time, he thought living things could too. since the earth was old, there is enough time for change to have occured

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Lamarck theory of evolution

Inheritance of Acquired traits

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Lyell thought processes occurred slowly

true

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smallest group that can evolve

population

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Inheritance of Acquired traits

Lamark thoughts that organisms could gain or lose traits within their lifetimes and that their offspring would have the same traits as them when born

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Malthus

human population continues growing so soon there won’t be enough resources

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what variation causes artificial selection

nature