ch 10 Flashcards
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species
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A species is a group of organisms so similar to one another that they can reproduce and have fertile offspring
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evolution
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Evolution is the process of biological change by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors
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fossils
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Fossils are traces of organisms that existed in the past
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catastrophe
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Catastrophism are natural disasters such as floods and volcanic eruptions have happened often during Earth’s long history
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gradualism
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James Hutton said that gradualism is the changes he observed in landforms resulted from slow changes over a long period of time
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uniformitarianism
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This theory states that the geologic processes that shape Earth are uniform through time
