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Biology – Wilson Name______Chapter 16: Darwin’s Voyage of Discovery Pd:___ Date:______1. p. 450 Where was Charles Darwin born? ______What year? ______2. What is evolution? ______3. In ______Darwin sailed on the H.M.S. ______mapped the coastline of ______and collected ______that led him to “the best ______anyone has ever had.” 4. What three patterns of biodiversity did Darwin note? 1. ______2. ______and 3. ______5. p 13 A scientific theory is a well-______explanation unifying a broad range of ______and ______enabling scientists to make new ______… 6. Look at the map (p451,), After New Zealand, Darwin stopped where? ______7. Darwin used the Cape of Good Hope to pass what continent? ______8. The Galapagos Islands are located to the west of what continent? ______9. Darwin wondered why there were no ______in Australia and no ______in England. 10. The glyptodont p453 resembles what living animal? ______11. Fossils are ______12. Which tortoise had the longest neck? p452 ______13. Which of the Galapagos Islands had rich vegetation? (16-2) ______14. What part of the tortoise could be used to determine what island it came from? ______15. He noted that many of the birds on the islands had differently shaped ______16. Darwin wondered if the animals living on the islands were once members of the same ______Ch 16 454: Ideas That Shaped Darwin's Thinking : 1. Many Europeans in Darwin's day believed the earth was only a few ______yrs old. 2. They believed that the earth hadn’t ______much. 3. The new science of ______provided evidence supporting different ideas about ______4. Hutton and Lyell concluded that the Earth is ______and that the processes that changed the Earth in the past are the ______. 5. Two natural forces that can shape valleys and mountains p455 ______6. Lyell argued scientists must explain past events in terms of processes they can observe in the ______7. Darwin asked himself, “If Earth can change over time, could ______?” 8. Lamarck suggested that organisms could change during their life times by selectively ______or not ______various parts of______and that individuals could pass their traits on to ______enabling species to ______. Biology and History Chart on p459! Which scientist made the discovery or proposal? 9. ______Estimates Earth to be millions of years old. 10. ______Set sail on the H.M.S. Beagle 11. ______Proposed the idea of inheritance by acquired traits. 12. ______Predicted that humans would outgrow their space and food.______13. In artificial selection, nature provides the ______and ______select those they find most ______. 14. A heritable characteristic increasing an organism’s ability to survive & reproduce is called ______15. Darwin and Lamarck recognized the connection the way an ______“make a living” and the ______in which it lives. 16. What is fitness?______17. ______is the process in which organisms with variations most suited to their local ______survive and leave more ______. 18. In your own words explain descent with modification:______19. What are the “Evidences of Evolution?” Hint: List the 4 green titles on pgs 465-470: 1______2.______3.______4.______