Unity and Diversity Review

What you need◦ White board◦ Dry Erase Marker◦ Eraser

I will put a question up on the board Write down the answer on the dry erase

board Hold it up when finished I will check your answer

◦ If correct put a tally mark in the corner of your board.

Directions

What is the gradual change in species over time?

Question 1

Survival of the fittest can also be referred to as?

Question 2

What are the two main goals of every living organism, according to natural selection?

Question 3

Who was one of the main founding fathers of the theory of evolution?

Question 4

What was the name of the ship that Darwin used in his voyage?

Question 5

What was one of the main stops Darwin made on his voyage?

Question 6

Name an organism that Darwin found along his voyage.

Question 7

Besides looking at living organisms, what else did Darwin look at?

Question 8

What is the difference among individuals of a species?

Question 9

What variation do humans select those variations they find useful?

Question 10

What are organs that serve no useful function in an organism?

Question 11

Earth has millions of other kinds of organisms of every imaginable shape, size, and habitat. This variety of living things is called what?

Question 12

What is the results in changes in inherited characteristics of a population; these changes increase a species fitness in its environment?

Question 13

Put the following in the correct order (oldest to youngest) using the principals of relative dating?

Question 14

What is the process to determine the absolute ages of rocks by measuring the amounts of parent and daughter materials in a rock and by knowing the half-life of the parent?

Question 15

What are two ways to date rocks?

Question 16

What is the correct order of geological eras from oldest to youngest?

Question 17

What is the longest era of geological time?

Question 18

What was a major geological event that happened during the Precambrian Era?

Question 19

What era is the “Era of Recent Life”?

Question 20

Organisms with opposable thumbs, binocular vision, and flexible shoulders are known as what?

Question 21

What was special about Lucy (earliest hominid, Australopithecus)?

Question 22

Who lived in caves, were short with heavy bodies, and small chins? They also lived in families and hunted with stone tools.

Question 23

What is the meaning of homo sapiens?

Question 24

What is the study of development in organisms; compare embryos of different species?

Question 25

What major geological event happened in the Mesozoic era?

Question 26

What law says that the oldest rock layer is on the bottom and the youngest rock layer is on top?

Question 27

A fracture or a fault is an example of this. It cuts through rock layers. It is younger than the layers it cuts through

Question 28

What is it called when one rock body contains fragments of another rock body?

Question 29

What is an example of artificial selection?

Question 30

In your science notebook, relate this quote by Darwin to the Theory of Evolution and your own life.