Darwins delights
1)Who was Charles Darwin?
2)What was the name of the boat he sailed on?
3)Which Islands did he sail to?
4)Who was his best friend?
5)What theory did he come up with? How?
6)What was the name of his book?
7)What is 'survival of the fittest?'
8)How do animals adapt to their surroundings?
9)How can animals be grouped according to their surroundings?
10)What does biodiversity mean?
11)What is meant by the term 'micro-organism?'
12)What are some useful micro-organisms?
13)How are fossils used as evidence for evolution?
Charles Darwin is the man who discovered evolution.
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2) The voyage took 5 years and took place on the H.M.S Beagle.
3)He sailed to many islands but the Galapagos Islands are most famous.
4) Joseph Hooker.
6) On The Origin Of Species
5) He came up with the theory of
evolution by going on a voyage around the world for 5 years;on
his voyage he realised the world
had changed over millions of years
he then found that we must have changed in order to survive.This is a famous picture of the steps taken when we evolved:
7) The animal,plant or any other living thing, changes slightly to adapt to their environment in order to survive.
8) If one offspring have a new advantage
that the last offspring didn't have, then the next
offspring will have the same advantage and the one after until another advantage will occur and gradually change the organism until it is completely different
the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and attractive.
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10)
Micro means tiny and can only be seen through a micro-scope,and an organism is a living thing.So a Micro-organism is a tiny living thing!
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by classifications.
12)Yeast,Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus(what you use in yoghurt.)
13)you can compare them to bones from the same type of animal or same classification and they give you proof that organisms have
changed over a very long time.
charles darwin