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. The Voyage of the Beagle In 1831, when Darwin was just 22 years old, he set sail on a scientific expedition on a ship called the HMS Beagle. He was the naturalist on the voyage. As a naturalist, it was his job to observe and collect specimens of plants, animals, rocks, and fossils wherever the expedition went ashore. Darwin was fascinated by nature, so he loved his job on the Beagle. He spent more than 3 years of the 5-year trip exploring nature on distant continents and islands. While he was away, a former teacher published Darwin’s accounts of his observations. By the time Darwin finally returned to England, he had become famous as a naturalist. Darwin’s Observations During the long voyage, Darwin made many observations that helped him form his theory of evolution. For example: • He visited tropical rainforests and other new habitats where he saw many plants and animals he had never seen before. This impressed him with the great diversity of life. • He experienced an earthquake that lifted the ocean floor 2.7 meters (9 feet) above sea level. He also found rocks containing fossil sea shells in mountains high above sea level. These observations suggested that continents and oceans had changed dramatically over time and continue to change in dramatic ways. • He visited rock ledges that had clearly once been beaches that had gradually built up over time. This suggested that slow, steady processes also change Earth’s surface. • He dug up fossils of gigantic extinct mammals, such as the ground sloth. This was hard evidence that organisms looked very different in the past. It suggested that living things — like Earth’s surface — change over time. The Galápagos Islands Darwin’s most important observations were made on the Galápagos Islands. This is a group of 16 small volcanic islands 966 kilometers (600 miles) off the west coast of South America. Individual Galápagos Islands differ from one another in important ways. Some are rocky and dry. Others have better soil and more rainfall. Darwin noticed that the plants and animals on the different islands also differed. For example, the giant tortoises on one island had saddle-shaped shells, while those on another island had dome-shaped shells. People who lived on the islands could even tell the island a turtle came from by its shell. This started Darwin thinking about the origin of species. He wondered how each island came to have its own type of tortoise. Questions 1. What was Darwin’s role on the Beagle? . 2. What was significant about the new habitats Darwin visited?.... . 3. What was significant about the rocks Darwin found in the mountains?.... . 4. What was significant about the fossils Darwin found?... . . 5. What did Darwin notice about life on the Galápagos Islands? *

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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