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Foldable Instructions
1. Make a layered-booklet foldable using
three pieces of legal sized paper. Make
your tabs at least one inch wide.
Success Criteria:
Explain that some organisms are found in the fossil record and are no
longer on earth (extinction).
Fossil Record
Use the green life science book to find the following definitions (in
glossary).
2.Define extinction
3.Define evolution
Answer the following question: (page 170-171 in the Life Science book)
1.Cut out each of the diagrams that show a modern toothed whale
and its ancestors.
2. Arrange the diagrams to show the evolution of the whale and
glue/tape them down on the back of your foldable.
3.Add arrows to show the order in which these species existed.
4.Use the textbook and write notes about each species near its
pictures.
5.Make a note about how each species is different from the one
before it.
Anatomical Similarities and Differences
Learning Target: Anatomical similarities and differences, as well as
DNA, help to determine evolutionary relationships
Success Criteria:
Define vestigial structure and explain how they can be used to infer
evolutionary relationships.
Anatomical Similarities and Differences Between
Modern Organisms
Answer the following questions: (page 172 in Life Science Book)
Success Criteria:
1.What is an embryo?