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group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area
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group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area
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Change over time
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materials found in the earth that organisms need to survive
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An educated guess
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inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival
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Preserved remains of once-living organisms
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Characteristics that are inherited
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the surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
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Information obtained through the senses.
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Place where an organism lives
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a person that someone is descended from
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A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
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an unusual, observable event
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'Father of uniformitarianism' - belief that the earth was old, and changes happened slowly
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The variety of different types of genes in a species or population.
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difference, variety; a condition of having many different types of forms
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where did darwin visit for his 5 year trip
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A number of different kinds; assortment
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English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
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passed from parent to offspring
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Another explanation might be that every type of bird with every beak type started out on each of the islands, but only the ones that were best able to get food survived.
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Another explanation might be that each of these finches have always been exactly where they are now. There was no competition.
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Darwin hypothesized that there was one population of ancestor finches that had arrived to the Galápagos Islands from South America. This population took over the different islands
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Ability of an animal to look like another more harmful animal
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disguise
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humans select 2 parents with desirable traits (good genes) to breed (mate, make babies) and produce offspring with the desirable traits, farmer have been doing this with animals and plants for hundreds of years
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A change in a gene or chromosome.
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Copying process by which a cell duplicates its DNA
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Chemical factors that determine traits
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The comparison of body structures and how they vary among species
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body part that is similar in structure on different organisms but performs different functions
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the special, normal, or proper activity of an organ or part
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a structure in a present day organism that no longer serves its natural purposes/// ex. leg bones in snakes
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study of embryos and their development
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no longer in existence
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Change over time
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the act of splitting off into different directions
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older than
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They are useful for relative dating of rock strata.
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index fossils
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sedimentary
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tectonic forces
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undisturbed
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a large crack in a rock formation where the rocks on either side move past each other
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a fossil of an organism that lived over a widespread area for a short period of geologic time
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magma pushes into these cracks or areas of weakness, it causes them to widen, over time the magma cools and solidifies to form new igneous rock
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states that the rock feature that cuts across another rock feature is the younger of the two features
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states that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock is at the bottom and the youngest rock is at the top
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the process of determining the order in which events in Earth's history occurred
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States that if a rock layer contains pieces of another rock layer, that layer is newer than the rock it contains.
