Warm up today is on how humans are causing the next extinction. Clink on this link to open the article. Once you read the article, answer the questions from the board in your warm up folder. Next we organzied our notebooks for the new unit. New cover sheet(50), new table of contents(51)...our unit will be called EVOLUTION, ENERGY and ECOSYSTEMS. Our unit on evolution sometimes can be a bit controversial so to start the unit we go over the differences between Laws and Theories on the back of page 51. Evolution is a theory. For the new unit, we started off with some vocabulary. On page 52 in your notebook. Define the following words(use the textbook). You will have to use the glossary and/or the index. Please skip 2 lines between each word once you have defined them. 1.Mutation 2.Natural selection 3.Adaptation 4.Vestigial organs 5.Evolution 6.Speciation Next we watched some video clips on biological evolution through Discovery Education. DISCOVERY EDUCATION- make sure you log into Discovery Ed first through your student portal and then click the link below. You do not have to watch all of the clips, just the 6 listed below. Click here for video. Elements of Biology: Biological Evolution Watch the following and fill in the video guide. 1.Introduction to Charles Darwin 2.A new Understanding of Life 3.From the Big Bang to Early Life 4.The Evolution of Complex Organisms (questions 7-8) 5.The Proliferation of Species 6.The Evidence for the Theory of Evolution Attach the video guide to the back of page 52.
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