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made up of all the fossils ever discovered
a) fossils
b) fossil record
c) GTS
d) tacos

IMPRESSION of an organism
a) first
b) cast
c) mold
d) fossil

COPY of an organism, formed when sediment fills in a mold
a) cast
b) mold
c) fossil
d) carbonization

remains of conditions or activity (mudcracks/footprints)
a) mold
b) cast
c) trace fossil
d) mineralization

Chart that divides Earth's history into different time units
a) Fossils
b) Fossil Record
c) Geological Time Scale (GTS)
d) PPMC

Extinction
a) when the last individual organism of a species dies
b) A few organisms die
c) Death
d) Is not currently occuring

Changes OVER time.
a) Biological evolution
b) Natural Selection
c) Progression
d) Regression

A person who studies plants and animals by observing them
a) Biologist
b) Chemist
c) Naturalist
d) Botanist

A slight difference in an inherited trait of individual members of a species
a) differences
b) adapations
c) evolution
d) varations

process in which organisms with variations are better adapted to their environments will survive and reproduce
a) evolution
b) competition
c) natural selection
d) adapations

an inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing
a) natural selection
b) variation
c) adapation
d) evolution

An adaptation that allows an organism to blend with it's environoment
a) blending
b) adapting
c) camouflage
d) evolution

an adaptation in which one species resembles another
a) adaptation
b) camouflage
c) evolution
d) mimicry

Breeding of organisms for specific traits (like a pure-bred dog)
a) selective breeding
b) adapation
c) evolution
d) natural selection

study of similar/difference in structures among living species
a) comparative anatomy
b) homologous structures
c) analogous structures
d) vestigial structures

body parts that are SIMILAR in structure and position but DIFFERENT in function (Arm bones in different organisms)
a) comparative anatomy
b) homologous structures
c) analogous structures
d) vestigial structures

Body parts that perform a SIMILAR function but differ in structures (Bird vs Fly wing)
a) comparative anatomy
b) homologous structures
c) analogous structures
d) vestigial structures

Body parts that have lost their original function through evolution (Wisdom teeth/appendix)
a) comparative anatomy
b) homologous structures
c) analogous structures
d) vestigial structures

studying the development of embryos
a) evolution
b) anatomy
c) embryology
d) natural selection

Correct order of GTS (from old to now)
a) Precambrian, Paleozoic, Cenozoic, Mesozoic
b) Paleozoic, Cenozoic, Mesozoic,Precambrian
c) Cenozoic, Mesozoic,Precambrian, Paleozoic
d) Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic

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