Evolution Scavenger Hunt

Visit the Natural History Museum website and write a brief biography about Charles Darwin.

1.      Who was Charles Darwin? ______________________________________________________________________________________________

2.      What is the theory of Natural Selection? _________________________________________________________________________________

3.     Which organism helped Darwin formulate his ideas?  Where were they found?  _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4.   How were these organisms different from each other?  ____________________________________________________________________

 CLICK on Cladogram Info.  Complete the following: 

PART 1

1. ______ Wings

2. ______ 6 Legs

3. ______ Segmented Body

4. ______ Double set of wings

5. ______ Cerci (abdominal appendages)

6. ______ Crushing mouthparts

7. ______ Legs

8. ______ Curly Antennae 

PART II - Create Your Own Cladogram

To make a cladogram, you must first look at the animals you are studying and establish characteristics that they share and ones that are unique to each group. For the animals on the table, indicate whether the characteristic is present or not. Based on that chart, create a cladogram like the one pictured above.

Now you are ready to watch Video 2 “Who Was Charles Darwin?” on the Evolution website at pbs.org:

6.      What was the name of Darwin’s book? _______________________________________________________

7.      What was the mechanism that Darwin believed was responsible for evolution? ________________________________________________________________________________________________

 Visit the Understanding Evolution-Fossils website for Evidence of Evolution:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/lines_02

Watch the video on the Evolution website at pbs.org that describes how fossils form.  Click on the video "Becoming a Fossil".

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/3/l_043_01.html

 8.      What does fossil evidence show? _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Visit the Understanding Evolution-Geography website for Evidence of Evolution:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/lines_11

9.      How did marsupials get from one part of the world to another? _________________________________________________________________________________________________

Watch the video on vimeo to understand how Homologous Structures are Evidence of Evolution:

http://vimeo.com/35463748

10.  What is the reason that the whale and the human have bones in the forearm that are similar in structure? __________________________________________________________________________________________________

Watch the video, “Common Past, Different Paths” on the Evolution website at pbs.org to understand how

Embryology is Evidence of Evolution:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/2/l_042_02.html

https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.cyc.embryo/common-past-different-paths/

 11.  Summarize __________________________________________________________________________________________________

Scientists that influenced Darwin’s thinking: Lamarck, Malthus, Lyell and Hutton

                Read the article "Early Concepts of Evolution: Jean Baptiste Lamarck" on the Understanding Evolution website at berkeley.edu

               http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/history_09

12.  Compare Lamarck and Darwin’s theories of evolution.__________________________________________________________________________________________ 

               Read about Thomas Malthus on the berkeley.edu site

               http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/malthus.html

13.  Summarize Malthus theory and describe how it affected Darwin’s thinking.____________________________________________________________________________________________     

             Read the article "Uniformitarianism: Charles Lyell" about Lyell and Hutton on the Understanding Evolution site.

             http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/history_12

 14. How did the contributions of Lyell and Hutton influence Darwin?

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