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Evolution and Classification
LIfe is everywhere!  Learn how life evolves and how scientists try to make sense of it all through taxonomy!
Evolution and Darwin
 

Why is there some much diversity of life?

  • What pattern did Darwin observe among organisms of the Galápagos Islands?       

What Ideas Shaped Darwins Thinking?

  • State how Hutton and Lyell described geological change.
  • Identify how Lamarck thought species evolve.
  • Describe Malthus's theory of population growth.

Darwin Presents His Case

  • List events leading to Darwin's publication of "On the Origin of Species."
  • What is artificial selection?
  • Explain how natural selection is related to species' fitness.
  • Identify evidence Darwin used to present his case for evolution.
  • What is Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection?

  1. NOTES: This website is all about Charles Darwin 
  2. DO: Watch the entire program online: "What Darwin Never Knew" 
  3. DO: Additional online activities for "What Darwin Never Knew" .  Check out: The Zoo of You and Guess the Embryo activities
  4. DO: Understanding Evolution: An awesome site with tutorials on many different aspects of evolution.  Sart with "Evolution 101" for a self-guided tutorial that explains evolution, speciation and classification.
  5. DO: Evolution This website has many activities that correlate with another great series about Darwin and Evolution. 
  6. Explore: See some of Darwin's original writings
  7. Explore:Find out about human evolution at Becoming Human. 

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Earth's History and Classification of Species
 
Earth's History
  • Describe the fossil record.
  • State the information that relative dating and radioactive dating provide about fossils.
  • Identify the divisions of the geologic time scale.  
  1. NOTES: Geologic Time Scale-detailed descriptions of the organisms and major geologic events on the geologic time scale.
  2. NOTES: The Record of Time- Great overview of both relative and radiometric dating.
  3. DO: Understanding Geologic Time Web Activity - Use this interactive tutorial to help you understand Geologic Time.
  4. DO: Radioactive Dating Game!  Interactive tutorial that demonstrates how radioactive dating works!  Just hit the "run now button". 
  5. DO: Radioactive Decay Explained.

Earths Early History

  • Describe how conditions on early Earth were different from conditions today.
  • Explain what Miller and Urey's experiments showed.
  • State the hypotheses that have been proposed for how life first arose on Earth.
  • Identify some of the main evolutionary steps in the early evolution of life.  
  • Describe the key forms of life in the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. I
  • dentify important patterns of macroevolution.
  1. NOTES: Geologic Time Scale- Brief overview of the geologic time scale.
  2. NOTES: Expanded Geologic Time Scale-detailed descriptions of the organisms and major geologic events on the geologic time scale.
  3. DO: Meet the Cambrian Critters!
  4. DO: Explore an Interactive Timeline: Deep Time
  5. EXPLORE: The Geology Wing at UC Berkeley!  Explore the virtual exhibits that really bring Earth's History to life!
Classification
Finding Order in Diversity
  • Explain how living things are organized for study.
  • Describe binomial nomenclature.
  • Explain Linnaeus's system of classification.

Modern Evolutionary Classification

  • Explain how evolutionary relationships are important in classification.
  • Identify the principle behind cladistic analysis and the use of phylogenic trees.
  • Explain how we can compare very dissimilar organisms.              

Kingdoms and Domains

  • Name the six kingdoms of life as they are now identified.
  • Describe the three-domain system of classification.
  1. NOTES: Classification of Living Things, An Introduction- A self-guided tutorial on how organisms are classified.
  2. DO: Cladograms Interactive Tutorial on how cladograms are used to demonstrate evolutionary hypotheses.
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