Vocab Flashcards
(18 cards)
Adaptation
A characteristic that improves an individual’s ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
Species
A group of organisms that are closely related and commit to produce fertile offspring.
Evolution
The process in which inherited characteristics within a population change over Generations such that new species sometimes arise.
Fossil
Remains or physical evidence of an organism preserved by geological processes.
Fossil Record
Hysterical sequence of life indicator by fossils found in layers of the Earth’s crust.
Trait
Genetically determined characteristic.
Selected Breeding
The human practice of Breeding animals or plants that have certain and desired characteristics.
Natural Selection
The process by which individuals that are better adaptive to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less will adapted individuals do a theory to explain mechanism of evolution.
Generation Time
The period between the birth of one generation and the birth of the next generation.
Relative Dating
Any method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than other events or objects.
Specimen
The formation of species as a result of evolution.
Absolute dating
Any method of measuring the age of an object or event in years.
Geologic Time Scale
The standard method used to divide the Earth’s long natural history into manageable parts.
Extinct
Describes a species that has died out completely.
Plate Tectonics
The theory that is how large pieces are on the Earth’s out most layer call the tectonic plates, move and change shape.
Primate
Of mammal characterized by opposite songs in binocular vision.
Hominid
Of type of primate characterized by bipedalism relatively long lower lips and a lack of a tail.
Homo Sapiens
Speeches of hominids that includes modern humans and the closest ancestors and the first appeared about 100,000 to 160,000 years ago.
