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Evolution Study Guide

Directions: Define and record the key concepts for each topic listed below. (Answer on a
separate piece of paper) Due: _____________
1. Biological Evolution
a. Charles Darwin
b. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
c. Natural selection
i. Overproduction
ii. Variation
iii. Adaptation
iv. Selection
d. Similarities in Structure
i. Vestigial Organs
ii. Homologous Structure v. Analogous Structures
iii. Embryological Similarities
2. The relationship between Biological and Geological Evolution
3. Geological Evolution
a. Absolute dating
i. Radioactive decay
ii. Half-Life *be able to complete a half-life chart*
b. Relative dating
i. Law of Superposition
ii. Index fossils
iii. Unconformities
c. Fossil types
4. Geologic Time Scale
a. Mass extinctions
b. Subdivisions
i. Eons
ii. Eras
iii. Periods
iv. Epochs
5. Ice core
6. Plate Tectonics