Chapter 10

3. - the study of the distribution of organisms around the world
5. changes observed in landforms resulted from slow changes over a long period of time
6. natural disasters have happened often during earth's long history
9. - the difference in the physical traits of an individual from those or other individuals in the group
11. - structures that perform a similar function but are not similar in origin
13. The biological process by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors
15. a group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to reproduce fertile offspring
16. - individuals that have inherited beneficial adaption show differential reproductive success

1. - remnants of organisms or structures found in an early ancestor that no longer serve a useful function or may serve a different function
2. - traces of organisms that existed in the past
4. - features that are similar in structure but appear in different organisms and have different functions
7. - a measure of the ability to survive and produce more offspring relative to other members of the population in a given environment
8. - the geological processes that shape earth are uniform over time
10. - a feature that allows an organism to better survive in its environment
12. - humans change a species by breeding it for certain traits
14. - the study of fossils or extinct organisms