QUIZ: ACTIVITIES 89 - 97
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STUDY GUIDE
Quiz Date:
1.
Review the Learning Targets for each activity. They are the guides to what you are supposed
to be learning. If you don’t know them, then make sure you go back, review, and/or get help.
Help can come from the book, your science notebook, peers, online research, or Mr. Groom.
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Use the online book. Look at the analysis questions for each of the activities. Can you answer
them? If not, go through your materials and review. If you can’t answer them, get help!
3.
Go through your notebook. Carefully review highlighted vocabulary words. Do you understand
them? How do they fit in to the Learning Targets?
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Take notes as you study!!!
Vocabulary and Handouts per Activity:
Activity
Associated Vocabulary/Concepts
Here Today,
Gone
Tomorrow
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Reading pages F-5 - 8
Endangered species and Extinction of others (definitions)
Consumer / Producer / Food Web / Species / Population definitions
Handouts: Vocab sheet, 3-level reading guide
AQ#1-4
90:
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Reading, page F-10
Sediment / Fossil / Geologic Time Scale definitions
How fossils form
Where would you find the oldest fossils? (see introduction to Activity 93 on
page F-21)
Observations vs. inferences
Handouts: AQ#1 (used for observations)
AQ #1-3
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Observations vs. inferences
Analysis of data
Making conclusions
Making multiple hypotheses based on evidence
Factors that could affect understanding the true story of fossils
Handouts: Fossil Footprints stuff (I still have these)
89:
Figuring Out
Fossils
91:
Fossilized
Footprints
Activity
94:
A Meeting of
Minds
95:
Hiding in the
Background
96:
Battling
Beaks
97:
Origins of
Species
Associated Vocabulary/Concepts
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Reading script, pg. F-25 – 28
Lamarck’s evolution theory and Darwin’s evolution theory
Acquired traits vs. Natural selection
Variation / Adaptation
Using evidence to modify hypotheses
Handouts: Vocabulary, Notes and Venn Diagram page
AQ# 1-3
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Camouflage / Variation / adaptation
Understanding of how populations of worms changed
Environmental effects on species
Predation (Predator / prey)
Beneficial mutations vs. harmful ones
Handouts: Background Information (about moths), Analysis Questions
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Variations
Cause of mutations with DNA
Harmful vs. beneficial mutations
Understanding of how and why forkbird species changed over time
Natural selection
Handouts: Data sheets and graph
AQ #2-7
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Reading, page F-37 – 42
Cause of mutations
Harmful vs. beneficial mutations
Environmental factors lead to natural selection of certain variations
Species change into new species because of helpful mutations that build up
over time.
How separated populations (like islands) can lead to faster speciation
Handouts: Anticipation Guide, Reading Outline, Quiz
AQ #2
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