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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.
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Chapter 11.1 Evidence for Evolution (TB pp. 214-220).
What is Evolution?
Vocabulary (use the words in
a sentence that explains their
meaning.
Adaptation
Evolution
Q.
1. For each organism list an
adaptation and its function:
a. spider
b. turtle
c. crab
Evolution is a branching
process
Vocabulary (use the words
in a sentence that explains
their meaning.)
Ancestor
Cladogram
Q.
Use the diagram below to make
a cladograms 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
Q.
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
Vocabulary (use the words in a
sentence that explains their
meaning.)
Homologous Structures
Analogous Structures
Vertebrates
Q.
1. How do similarities in the
bones of humans, porpoises,
birds, and elephants provide
evidence for evolution?
Fossils
Vocabulary (use the words in a
sentence that explains their
meaning.)
Fossil
Fossil record
Q.
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
Vocabulary (use the words in a
sentence that explains their
meaning.)
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
Vocabulary (use the words in a
sentence that explains their
meaning.)
Genetic variation
Q.
1. Why is genetic variation
necessary for natural selection
to occur?
How a new species evolves
Extinction of a species
Vocabulary (use the words in a
sentence that explains their
meaning.)
Extinction
Q.
1. List 3 causes of extinction.
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Chapter 12.1 Evidence form Rocks (TB pp. 238-242)
Fossil formation
Vocabulary (use the words
in a sentence that explains
their meaning.)
Geology
Q.
1. What does evidence
from rocks and fossils allow
us to understand?
The formation of sedimentary
rock
Vocabulary (use the words in a
sentence that explains their
meaning.)
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
Vocabulary (use the words in
a sentence that explains their
meaning.)
Uniformitarianism
Pangaea
Pangaea
Plate Tectonics
Vocabulary (use the words
in a sentence that explains
their meaning.)
Plate tectonics
Lithospheric plates
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Chapter 12.3 Life History (TB pp. 249-252)
The geologic time scale
Vocabulary (use the words in
a sentence that explains their
meaning.)
Geologic time scale
Q.
1. List one significant event
from each geologic era.
Mass extinctions
Vocabulary (use the words in a
sentence that explains their
meaning.)
Mass extinctions
Q.
1. What are some possible
causes for mass extinctions?
1. What is the cause of the
“Sixth” mass extinction?
Absolute dating
Vocabulary (use the words
in a sentence that explains
their meaning.)
Absolute dating
Half-life
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