Friday, September 24, 2010

Scavenger hunt

A)
  1. (1831-1836)
  2. Rabbits and Plants
  3. Species belonging to one genus have more in common with each other than they do with species belonging to another genus
  4. the doctrine that vast geological changes in the earths history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes
  5. Hutton held that geological processes are slow and subtle but that over prolonged period of time these can lead to major changes
  6. 6,000 years old
  7. “Descent with Modification”
  8. 1892
  9. Skeletal structure & Gene structure


B)
    10.   Believing that species can be arranged on an evolutionary ladder.
    11.   Evolution is a change in the gene pool of a population overtime.
    12.   Because a change in the gene pool light ones began to fly away
    13.   Larger changes, such as when a new species is formed.
    14.   Because they just simply adapt to their surrounding.
    15.   Amphibians
    16.   Natural Selection: differential reproductive success of genotypes. Usually prevents new
            alleles from increasing in frequency.
    17.   By regurgitating some blood into the others mouth.
C)
    18.   Inspired Darwin
      Malthus was a political economist. thought famine & poverty natural outcomes,the ultimate       
      for those outcomes was divine institution. Believed that such natural outcomes were gods         
      way of preventing man from being lazy.
      Darwin’s “Bulldog”
19.  -passionate defender of Darwin’s theory.
      - Great biologist in zoology & Daleontology
      - most famous writing published in 1863 is Evolution on Man’s Place in Nature.
20.  Continental drift
      Ph. D in astronomy from the university of Berlin in 1904
      Became fascinated with the developing fields of Meterology & Climatology
D)
    21. 50 islands of volcanic origin.
    22. Established in 1959
    23. Enemy attack during world war two
    24. 2-3 years
    25. Endemic: found only in
    26. Pahoehoa = ropey lava. (looks lie lava)
    27. Nope not unless you bother them.
    28. Galapagos Penguins
    29. to make nest for the Red-Footed Bobbies
    30. Gular Sack
E)
    31. Sedimentary rock
    32. metamorphic
    33. Above
    34. goats & sheep, horses, pigs and rhinos
    35. Hoofed animals with an even number of toes
    36. Horses & rhinos
    37. Until about 5 million years ago.
    38. Malaysia & parts of central and south America
    39. Enabling horses to run faster to avoid predators
    40. Dinohippus
    41. Dinohippus means powerful horse. Appears to be the closest relative to equus. The    
          tossae in the face are shallow, suggesting that it is an intermediate  form between these
          two genera.
    42. Equus.  

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