Vocab review
Unit 10
1.
The formation of a
new species
2. Motion
of the
continents on the
Earth’s surface plates
3. A
change in the gene
pool of a population
due to chance
4. An organism’s
contribution to the
gene pool of the next
generation (who
reproduces the most)
Periods in geological
history where there are
episodes of great
species loss
5.
Difference among
members of a species
6.
7. Change
in the
proportion of genes in a
population over a long
period of time
Selective breeding of
plants and animals to
produce desirable traits
8.
9. Inherited
characteristics that
improves an organisms
ability to survive and
reproduce
10. Individuals
with
characteristics suited
for the environment
have more offspring
11. Condition in which
a reproductive barrier
keeps 2 species from
breeding
12. Major biological
changes evident in the
fossil record
13. Evolution model
that species diverge in
spurts of rapid change
followed by little
change
14. Preserved remains
of organisms that lived
in the past
15. Species that no
longer exist
16. Remnant
structures that may
have been important in
the ancestral species
but not the modern one
17. Chronological
collections of life’s
remains in sedimentary
rock
18. Structures that
indicate a common
ancestor