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Assignment Title
Chapters 11 and 12: Evolution and
Earth and Life History.
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Cornell Notes: Chapter 11 Lesson 1
TB pp. 214-220
Cornell Notes: Chapter 11 Lesson 2
TB pp. 222-225
Cornell Notes: chapter 11 Lesson 3
TB pp. 227-230
Cornell Notes: Chapter 12 Lesson 1
TB pp. 238-242
Cornell Notes: Chapter 12 Lesson 2
TB pp. 244-247
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Cornell Notes: Chapter 12 Lesson 3
TB pp. 249-252
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Goals
The student will:
Chapter 11
• Explain adaptation and how it relates to evolution.
• Analyze cladograms to understand evolutionary relationships.
• Explain how fossils and the fossil record provide evidence of the past.
• Differentiate between artificial and natural selection
• Explain Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection.
• Describe the process of natural selection.
• Describe the importance of genetic variation.
• Explain the connection between natural selection and heredity.
• Summarize how a new species evolves.
• Discuss extinction and the common causes.
Chapter 12
• Explain that the evidence from rocks and fossils help geologists understand the Earth’s history.
• Define superposition.
• Compare and contrast different layers of rock.
• Describe how relative dating is used to sequence the order of events.
• Recognize that present day observations are used to interpret past events.
• Describe the relationship between fossil distribution and plate tectonics.
• Discuss the relationship between plate tectonics and evolution
• Explain how time is divided in the geological time scale.
• Describe how fossils are related to the geological time scale.
• Discuss the relationship between catastrophic events and the evolution of life on Earth.
• Explain extinction and its affects.
• Differentiate between relative dating and absolute dating.
Chapter 11.1 Evidence for Evolution (TB pp. 214-220).
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What is Evolution
Define:
Adaptation
Evolution
Q1. For each organism list an
adaptation and its function:
a. spider
b. turtle
c. crab
Evolution is a branching
process
Define:
Ancestor
Cladogram
Q. Use the diagram below
to make a cladogram with
the following organisms;
human, snake, chimpanzee,
and mouse.
Explain the reasoning for
your placement.
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Chapter 11.1 Evidence for Evolution (TB pp. 214-220).
An Evolutionary Timeline
Questions:
1. How old do scientists believe
the earth is?
2. When did life first appear on
earth? What type of cells?
3. When did the first humans
appear?
4. When did the first
multicelluar organisms appear?
5. List one other important
event from the timeline.
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Chapter 11.1 Evidence for Evolution (TB pp. 214-220)
Lines of Evidence
Define:
Homologous Structures
Analogous Structures
Vertebrates
Question:
1. How do similarities in the
bones of humans, porpoises,
birds, and elephants provide
evidence for evolution?
Fossils
Define:
Fossil
Fossil record
Questions:
1. Why are there gaps in the
fossil record?
2. In which layer in the
diagram at right will you find
the youngest fossils? The
oldest?
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Chapter 11.2 How Evolution Works (TB pp. 222-225)
The finches of the Galapagos
Q.
1. What was Darwin’s hypothesis
about the finches on the islands?
Darwin’s theory of evolution and
natural selection
Define:
Natural selection
Q.
1. What are 3 variables that affect
the size of a population?
The process of natural selection
Q.
1. List the four steps of natural
selection.
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Chapter 11.3 Natural Selection (TB pp. 227-230)
Mutations
Q.
1. What do random mutations
produce?
The importance of genetic
variation
Define:
Genetic variation
Q.
1. Why is genetic variation
necessary for natural selection
to occur?
How a new species evolves
Know the steps shown
here.
Extinction of a species
Define:
Extinction
Q.
1. List 3 causes of extinction.
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Chapter 12.1 Evidence form Rocks (TB pp. 238-242)
Fossil formation
Define:
Geology
Q.
1. What does evidence
from rocks and fossils allow
us to understand?
The formation of sedimentary
rock
Define:
Rock cycle
Superposition
Q.
1. Which fossil is the oldest in
figure 12.2?
How do you know?
Which term does it represent?
2. What is an inclusion?
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Chapter 12.2 How Earth Changes (TB pp. 244-247)
Pangaea
Define:
Uniformitarianism
Pangaea
Pangaea
Plate Tectonics
Define:
Plate tectonics
Lithospheric plates
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Chapter 12.3 Life History (TB pp. 249-252)
The geologic time scale
Define:
Geologic time scale
Q.
1. List one significant event
from each geologic era (there
are 3 of them).
Mass extinctions
Define:
Mass extinctions
Q.
1. Name at least 2 possible
causes for mass extinctions?
1. What is the cause of the
“sixth” mass extinction?
Absolute dating
Define:
Absolute dating
Half-life
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