ACTIVITY 1:

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Directions: Read and answer the questions below. Write your answers on the activity sheet.

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1. What is evolution?
2. Thomas Malthus wrote an essay on what in 1797?
3. He developed the Theory of Catastrophism based on the paleontological evidence he
found in the Paris Basin.
4. Developed by James Hutton, according to this theory the population of a species is
transformed slowly and progressively into a new species.
5. What was Charles Darwin’s contribution on the development of evolutionary
thought?
6. What were Carolus Linnaeus’ ideas?
7. True or False? The average person as well as scientists at the time believed that
organisms are in a perfect state and thus go on living unchanged, generation after
generation.
8. What is the difference between natural selection and artificial selection?
9. It is a process that occurs naturally without human interference where nature selects
the variations that are most useful for survival; this type of selection is called?
10. What was Darwin’s maiden voyage where he set for a scientific expedition?
11. Darwin’s most important observations were made here.
12. True or False? Scientists believed that the Earth was only about 60,000 years old.
13. Modern synthesis combined what aspects or theories by Darwin and Mendel?
14. Theory that states that organs of the body that were used extensively to cope with the
environment become larger and stronger, while organs that were not used
deteriorated.
15. The theory that states that traits acquired by an individual during its life are passed to
its offspring.