Assg: HON
Name
EVOLUTION CONCEPT MAP
Date
pd.
Your task is to create one or a couple concept maps to show how the concepts are related. Include a brief
description of the concept in the text box (shape) and put words on the arrows to show why you linked the
certain concepts together.
Use your notebook, worksheets, online activities, and resource textbooks to create your concept map. You
need to read, process, and think how these concepts relate to how and why organisms change through time.
RUBRIC FOR CONCEPT MAP
Exceeds Standard
Adequately Meets
9
Standard
8
Organization _______
Exemplary
10
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Content ______
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Cooperation
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Well organized
Logical format
Contains main concepts
Contains a appropriate
number of concepts
Map is “treelike” and
not stringy
Follows standard map
conventions
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Linking words
demonstrate superior
conceptual
understanding
Links are precisely
labeled
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Worked extremely well
with each
Respected and
complemented each
others ideas
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Approaching Standard
7
Thoughtfully organized
Easy to follow most of
the time
Contains most of the
main concepts
Contains an adequate
number of concepts
Follows the standard
map conventions
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Somewhat organized
Somewhat incoherent
Contains only a few of
the main concepts
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Choppy and confusing
Contains a limited
number of concepts
Linking words easy to
follow but at times
ideas unclear
Links are not precisely
labeled
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Linking words are clear
but present a flawed
rationale
Links are not labeled
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Difficult to follow
Links are vague
Worked very well with
each other.
Worked to get everyone
involved
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Attempted to work well
with others.
At times ”off task” and
not everyone was
actively involved
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Little or no teamwork
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Concepts to Include:
 adaptive radiation or divergent evolution
 homologous structure
 analogous structures
 homology
 artificial selection
 Lamarck’s idea of evolution
 binomial nomenclature (genus, species)
 macroevolution
 biogeography
 microevolution
 bottleneck effect
 molecular homologies
 coevolution
 mutations
 convergent evolution
 natural selection
 Darwin
 natural selection
 descent with modification
 Origin of Species
 directional selection
 paleontology
 disruptive selection
 phylogeny
 domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus,
 population genetics
species
 punctuated equilibrium
 evolutionary adaptation
 speciation
 founder effect
 stabilizing selection
 gene flow
 systematics
 gene pool
 taxon
 genetic drift
 taxonomy
 gradualism
 uniformitarianism
 vestigial organs
Please add to your handout…
 Allopatric speciation
 Sympatric speciation
 Prezygotic barriers
 Postzygotic barriers
 Evidence of evolution
 Genetic variation