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The process by which organisms acquire traits from their parents

The process of organisms adapting to their environment over time

The classification of living things into groups

The extinction of species due to environmental changes

By staying the same over time.

By adapting to their environment, which can lead to evolution.

By refusing to change.

By moving to new environments only.

evolution

Charles Darwin

ancestors

descendants

They were all exactly the same on each island.

They were a little different on each island, even though they seemed related.

They could not survive on the islands.

They were not related at all.

All living things have changed slowly over millions of years from a common ancestor.

All living things were created at the same time.

Living things do not change over time.

Only humans have evolved.

Tiny changes happen over time

It happens across generations

Life cycles are slow

All living things change instantly

Because changes are tiny and happen over many generations.

Because living things never change.

Because evolution happens in one individual.

Because nature changes quickly.

Single-celled organisms began working together

Animals with backbones appeared

A giant asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

Modern humans evolved

Single-celled organisms like bacteria

Plants

Fish

Mammals

Small mammals evolved during the time of the dinosaurs

Early primates were ancestors of monkeys, apes, and humans

Plants grew on land before mammals evolved

Dinosaurs evolved from mammals

First Life

First Multicellular Life

First Plants

First Mammals

Early primates

Dinosaurs

First plants

Single-celled organisms

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