unit 6 people

Question 1

Aristotle

Answer 1

organized life on scale of increasing complexity
- animals are fixed and unchanging
- humans on top

Question 2

creationism

Answer 2

earth is around 6000 years old
all species were individually and perfectly designed by God

Question 3

carolous linus

Answer 3

• believed in creationalism, and that adaptions were evidence of god
• created taxonomy system
• created binomial nomenclature

Question 4

catastrophism *

Answer 4

cuvier
- changes in earth’s crust that have caused sudden and violent changes and events

Question 5

gradualism *

Answer 5

hutton
earths changes are the cumulative product of slow continuous processes
- alternative to catastrophism

Question 6

struggle for existence *

Answer 6

malthus
not enough resources
- Population grows exponentially
- Food/resources grow linear

Question 7

uniformitarianism *

Answer 7

lyell

processes shaping earth occurs at the same rate

• Earth is millions of years old
• Very slow overtime

Question 8

inheritance of acquired traits *

Answer 8

lamarck
use and dis-use body parts (giraffe thing)

Question 9

intelligent design

Answer 9

some things are too complex
- suggests higher being