Darwin - 5 Points

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Darwin - 5 Points

• The individual who published On the Origin of
  Species in 1859, the father of natural selection
• Who is Charles Darwin?

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Darwin - 10 Points

• The sailing ship on which Darwin traveled for
  five years
• What is The Beagle?

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Darwin - 15 Points

• The location off the coast of South America where
  Darwin collected finches
• What is the Galapagos Islands?

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Darwin - 20 Points

• The theory stating that organisms change over
  time
• What is evolution?

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Darwin - 25 Points

• The scientist who hypothesized that acquired
  characteristics can be passed on to offspring
• Who is Jean-Baptiste LaMarck?

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Evolution - 5 Points

• A method used by humans to choose and breed
  individuals of a species with the most desirable
  traits
• What is selective breeding (artificial selection)?

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Evolution - 10 Points

• The ability of an organism to survive and
  reproduce in an environment and thereby pass on
  their genes to their offspring
• What is fitness?

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Evolution - 15 Points

• An inherited trait that increases an organisms
  chance of survival in a particular environment
• What is an adaptation?

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Evolution - 20 Points

• The process by which individuals with variations
  that make them best-suited to their environment
  reproduce more than individuals without those
  variations
• What is natural selection or survival of the
  fittest?

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Evolution - 25 Points

• Individuals do not evolve, but these do
• What are species?

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Evidence for Evolution 5 Points

• The preserved remnant or trace of an organism
  from a past ecological age
• What is a fossil?

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Evidence for Evolution 10 Points

• The study of development of fertilized eggs that
  shows similar patterns across species
• What is embryology?

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Evidence for Evolution 15 Points

• Structures that have similar structures but
  different functions, such as a whale fin and a
  bat wing
• What are homologous structures?

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Evidence for Evolution 20 Points

• Structures that have different structures but
  similar functions, like bird wings and bee wings
• What are analogous structures?

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Evidence for Evolution 25 Points

• Structures that served a purpose in an ancestral
  organism but do not have a useful function in the
  modern organism, like the appendix in humans
• What are vestigial structures?

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Patterns of Evolution - 5 Points

• The process by which many organisms become
  extinct at the same time
• What is mass extinction?

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Patterns of Evolution - 10 Points

• A pattern of evolution in which two species
  interact closely and change in response to each
  other over time
• What is coevolution?

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Patterns of Evolution - 15 Points

• A pattern of evolution in which one species
  evolves into several different species
• What is divergent evolution?

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Patterns of Evolution - 20 Points

• A pattern of evolution in which different species
  evolve to have similar structures as a result of
  living in similar environments
• What is convergent evolution?

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Patterns of Evolution - 25 Points

• The formation of a new species
• What is speciation?

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Levels of Organization - 5 Points

• An individual of a species
• What is an organism?

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Levels of Organization 10 Points

• A group of individuals of the same species living
  in the same area at the same time
• What is a population?

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Levels of Organization 15 Points

• Different populations interacting and living in
  the same area
• What is a community?

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Levels of Organization 20 Points

• All of the living species in an area interacting
  with the nonliving environment
• What is an ecosystem?

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Levels of Organization 25 Points

• The broadest level of organization that extends
  from Earths atmosphere to below the ocean floor
• What is a biosphere?

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Obtaining Energy 5 Points

• An organism that uses sunlight or chemicals to
  make organic compounds
• What is a producer or autotroph?

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Obtaining Energy 10 Points

• An organism that must consume other plants or
  animals to obtain energy
• What is a heterotroph or consumer?

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Obtaining Energy 15 Points

• An organism that gains energy by eating only
  plants
• What is a herbivore or primary consumer?

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Obtaining Energy 20 Points

• An organism that gains energy by eating only
  animals
• What is a carnivore or secondary consumer?

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Obtaining Energy 25 Points

• An organism that gains energy by breaking down
  dead plants and animals
• What is a decomposer?

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Chemical Cycles - 5 Points

• The chemical cycle that involves evaporation,
  transpiration, condensation, and precipitation
• What is the water cycle?

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Chemical Cycles - 10 Points

• The chemical cycle that involves photosynthesis,
  respiration, decomposition, and combustion
• What is the carbon cycle?

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Chemical Cycles - 15 Points

• The chemical cycle that involves nitrogen
  fixation, nitrification, and denitrification
• What is the nitrogen cycle?

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Chemical Cycles - 20 Points

• The chemical cycle that involves a chemical
  released gradually from rocks and is needed to
  make DNA and RNA
• What is the phosphorus cycle?

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Chemical Cycles - 25 Points

• The process by which chemicals, elements, and
  matter are cycled between organisms and parts of
  the biosphere
• What is biogeochemical cycling?

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Relationships - 5 Points

• The biological and physical role of an organism
  in its environment
• What is a niche?

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Relationships - 10 Points

• Interaction in which one animal kills and
  consumes another organism
• What is predation or predator-prey?

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Relationships - 15 Points

• A relationship in which two organisms live
  together and both benefit
• What is mutualism?

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Relationships - 20 Points

• A relationship in which one organism lives in or
  on another organism and harms it by taking
  nutrient from it
• What is parasitism?

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Relationships - 25 Points

• A relationship in which one organism benefits
  from another organism and that organism is
  neither harmed nor helped
• What is commensalism?

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