Evolution Jeopardy

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Misc.
Evidence of Evolution
Theory of Evolution
Macro-Evolution
Vocab
Classification
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He traveled to the Galapagos Islands on the HMS
Beagle and observed similar species suited to
their particular environment.
A 100
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Who is Charles Darwin?
A 100
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This person suggested that there would soon be
insufficient food and living space for the
growing population.
A 200
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Who is Malthus?
A 200
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He proposed that giraffes got their long necks
from stretching them. (the idea of use and
disuse)
A 300
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Who is Lamarck?
A 300
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Geologists that proposed Earth to be many
millions of years old, older than anyone believed.
A 400
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Who is Hutton and Lyell?
A 400
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Process by which individuals better suited to
their environment can survive and reproduce most
successfully.
A 500
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What is Natural Selection or Survival of the
Fittest?
A 500
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A long, slow change in organisms over long
periods of time.
B 100
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What is Evolution?
B 100
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Any inherited trait or characteristic that
increases an organisms chances for survival.
B 200
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What is adaptation?
What is Adaptation?
B 200
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A sudden change in the sequence of DNA
B 300
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What is a Mutation?
B 300
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The combined genetic make-up of ALL the members
of a population.
B 400
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What is a Gene Pool?
B 400
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A process in which HUMANS choose the most
desirable traits of a population for breeding
purposes.
B 500
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What is Artificial Selection Or Selective
Breeding?
B 500
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Preserved or mineralized remains of organisms
usually found in sedimentary rock.
C 100
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What are Fossils?
C 100
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Structures that have similar origin and structure
but are adapted for different purposes (Example
Human arm/Bat wing)
C 200
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What are Homologous Structures?
C 200
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• Fossil Records
• Geographical Distribution
• Homologous Structures
• Vestigial Organs
• Similarities in Embryology
• Similarities in DNA

C 300
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What is Evidence of Evolution?
C 300
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DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
Place A Wager
C 400
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Appendix in Humans Leg Bones in Whales
C 400
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What are examples of Vestigial Structures?
C 400
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The early stages of development in organisms in
which there are many similarities among different
species.
C 500
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What is Embryology?
C 500
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This may happen if a species lacks the variations
necessary to adapt to a changing environment.
D 100
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What is Die and Become Extinct?
D 100
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Two populations are capable of interbreeding but
have differences in courtship rituals or other
reproductive strategies that involve behavior.
(ex Eastern and Western Meadowlarks)
D 200
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What is Behavioral Isolation?
D 200
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Two populations are separated by geographic
barriers such as rivers, mountains, or other
bodies of water.
D 300
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What is Geographic Isolation?
D 300
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Two or more species reproduce at different times
and therefore, cannot interbreed.
D 400
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What is Temporal Isolation?
D 400
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When the Industrial Revolution began the tree
trunks and buildings blackened with soot. Moths
that were darker in color blended in with their
environment better than light-colored moths.
This is an example of
D 500
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What is Natural Selection (in favor of more
darkly colored individuals).
D 500
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A Swedish botanist that developed a two-word
naming system (Science of Taxonomy)
E 100
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Who is Linnaeus?
E 100
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The broadest, largest category of classification
- organisms have the fewest traits in common
E 200
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What is Domain?
E 200
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The most specific level of classification in
which organisms have the most traits in common A
Genus is composed of a number of these

E 300
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What is Species?
E 300
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The 2-word scientific naming of an organism
E 400
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What is Binomial Nomenclature?
E 400
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The two levels of classification used to identify
an organism
E 500
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What is Genus and Species?
E 500
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All the individuals of a species that live
together in one area. (Example Alligators in
the Florida Everglades)
F 100
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What is a Population?
F 100
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Differences such as fur color shape of
teeth beak sizes shapes in shells
F 200
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What is Variation?
F 200
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A tool used by scientists to identify organisms
F 300
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What is a Dichotomous Key?
F 300
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The two main sources of genetic variation
F 400
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What is gene shuffling and mutations?
F 400
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A diagram used to show evolutionary relationships
among organisms.
F 500
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What is A Cladogram?
F 500
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The Final Jeopardy Category is TAXONOMY Please
record your wager.
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What scientists believe might explain why many
bones of fossil vertebrates are similar to those
in living vertebrates.
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What is a Common Ancestor?
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