8.L.4 Understand the evolution of organisms and landforms based on evidence, theories and processes that impact the Earth over time.

8.L.4.1 Summarize the use of evidence drawn from geology, fossils, and comparative anatomy to form the basis for biological classification systems and the theory of evolution 

Terms and Concepts

1. species

2. fossil

3. Galápagos Island

4. Charles Darwin

5. Origin of Species

6. adaptations

7. evolution

8. natural selection

9. variation

10. competition

11. selection

12. environmental change

13. genes and natural selection

14. fossils

15. similarities in early development

16. similarities in body structure

17. homologous structures

18. similarities in DNA

19. branching trees

20. petrified fossils

21. mold

22. cast

23. relative dating

24. radioactive dating

25. radioactive elements

26. half-life

27. extinct

28. Geologic Time Scale

29. mass extinctions

30. gradualism

31. punctuated equilibria