1. 3/17 & 3/18 - 7th Grade Agenda
Learning Objective: Learn about how new species are created
Collect HW: Reading & Notetaking p
Pass back graded HW, Test, Grade Printout
Video: Science in Action – Evolution
Text Book Reading: 238 – 242
Reminder: Take back the Science Fair Projects by 3/18
HW: Reading & Notetaking p. 119 – 121
HW: Signed Grade Printout

2. Reflection
Prompt: How did the Giraffe evolve its long neck?

3. Did humans evolve from chimpanzees?NO
Humans did not evolve from chimpanzees. Humans and chimpanzees are evolutionary cousins and share a recent common ancestor that was neither chimpanzee nor human.
Humans are not "higher" or "more evolved" than other living lineages.

4. Comparison of Bonobos and Chimpanzees

5. Flores man was 3 feet tall
Lived in an Island in Indonesia 10,000 years ago
Lived with Dwarf Elephants

6. Gigantopithecus was 10 feet tall
Lived in SouthEast Asia 100,000 years ago.
Walked on all fours but can stand upright

7. Can evolution be described as a tree or a ladder?

8. Fossils in which minerals replace all or part of an organism is called…
Petrified Fossils

9. Most Common Fossils are Molds and Casts. What are they?
Mold: Hollow in shape and are formed when an organism buried in sediment dissolves
Cast: Copy of an organism’s shape formed when minerals seep into a mold
Dinosaur Foot Print

10. What is a carbon film fossil?
Carbon film is an extremely thin coating of carbon on rock.

11. What are Trace Fossils?
Trace Fossils provide evidence of the activities of ancient organisms. Such as Dinosaur foot prints
Megalosaurus footprint A meat eating predator from the Jurassic

12. What are some of the ways that extinct animals can be preserved with little or no change?
Amber
Freezing