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Most scientists at this time were employed by _________________.
Most American scientists were famous because of _________________.
Name the two scientists that created the Theory of Evolution.
What plant and animal did Darwin concentrate his studies on while on the Galapagos
Island?
What is the definition of a species?
What do scientists mean by “acquired characteristics”?
True or False….Evolution claims that man evolved from apes.
What two ideas have strengthened modern views of evolution?
What is an invertebrate?
What is a vertebrate?
This idea states that the more advance an organism, the more developed its head region.
This was one of the most important discoveries by Karl Ernst von Baer.
This organism was an important link between fish and amphibians.
In order for one organism to mate and produce young, what must be equal?
What did Julius von Sachs discover?
This is the study of interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is a quagga?
Write the equation for photosynthesis.
Explain the relationships known as commensalism, mutualism and parasitism.
Which came first, the fault or the earthquake?
Who proposed the catastrophe theory? What was the catastrophe theory?
What did Arthur Holmes use to determine the age of the Earth?
What was the first “soft” fossil?
What do scientists use to measure the movements of the Earth?
What is the core of the Earth made of?
What is the most active volcano?
What percentage of all volcanic activity takes place underwater?
What is Thomas Jager famous for?
What is pumice?
Name two of the first scientists to propose that the Earth was really old?
This discovery proved that man had been around much longer than the known
civilizations.
Java Man later became classified as ______________.
What are the three types of volcanoes?
What do you think scientists may name the age we are currently in?
Explain how the Mid-Atlantic Ridge works.
What planet was discovered at this time?
What planet was not discovered at this time?
What improvement was made to telescopes?
What is different about the rotation of the Sun?
What land feature was “found” on the surface of Mars?
What caused craters on the moon?
Who wrote a book about travel to the moon?
These small objects collided over and over to form the planets.
What is the name for the newly discovered space in Saturn’s rings?
What is spectography?
What is the red shift?
Energy of position is called?
Energy of motion is called?
All vocabulary terms are fair game for the test. You may use your vocabulary sheet on the test.
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