• Study Resource
  • Explore Categories
    • Arts & Humanities
    • Business
    • Engineering & Technology
    • Foreign Language
    • History
    • Math
    • Science
    • Social Science

    Top subcategories

    • Advanced Math
    • Algebra
    • Basic Math
    • Calculus
    • Geometry
    • Linear Algebra
    • Pre-Algebra
    • Pre-Calculus
    • Statistics And Probability
    • Trigonometry
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Astronomy
    • Astrophysics
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Earth Science
    • Environmental Science
    • Health Science
    • Physics
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Anthropology
    • Law
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Sociology
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Accounting
    • Economics
    • Finance
    • Management
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Aerospace Engineering
    • Bioengineering
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Civil Engineering
    • Computer Science
    • Electrical Engineering
    • Industrial Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Web Design
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Architecture
    • Communications
    • English
    • Gender Studies
    • Music
    • Performing Arts
    • Philosophy
    • Religious Studies
    • Writing
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Ancient History
    • European History
    • US History
    • World History
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Finnish
    • Greek
    • Hindi
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Persian
    • Swedish
    • Turkish
    • other →
 
Profile Documents Logout
Upload
Classifying Animals
Classifying Animals

... Classifying Based on Shared Features Look at the vehicles in the photo. How could you classify the vehicles, or divide them into groups? One way would be to think of how some of the vehicles are similar. For example, you could put the passenger cars in one group and the SUVs in another group. You co ...
Revised NEW Item Specifications October 2007 Biology
Revised NEW Item Specifications October 2007 Biology

... • Select appropriate glassware for conducting experiments including a graduated cylinder, a beaker, a flask, a test tube, a microscope slide, a pipette, and a Petri dish. • Select appropriate measuring equipment for conducting experiments including a balance and a ...
Name Period___ Date
Name Period___ Date

... H. What is the difference between weathering and erosion? Weathering processes break down rocks, whereas erosion transports sediments. I. Explain the importance of soil. Without soil we would have no life on Earth. Plants grow in the soil and plants represent the basis of our food chain. ...
Zoology
Zoology

... ● Each chromosome consists of a single very long DNA molecule, and each gene on the chromosome is a particular segment of that DNA. The instructions for forming species’ characteristics are carried in DNA. All cells in an organism have the same genetic content, but the genes used (expressed) by the ...
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Notes
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Notes

... 1: ________________________________ ...
Coevolution webquest
Coevolution webquest

...  Find a picture of the spider crab covered in algae. Use the picture and what you know about natural selection to explain how these two organisms could have coevolved. ...
rock - LPS
rock - LPS

... Fossil Formation  Altered Remains • The remains of an organism are likely to be changed over time. • Fossils often become _____________ or turned to __________. • _____________ and __________are another common type of fossil. • ________________ is particularly effective in preserving leaves and del ...
science core curriculum guide
science core curriculum guide

... How do scientists know that different kinds of plants and animals lived in Earth’s past? What is a fossil? How can it be helpful to scientists? What does the term “relative” mean? What does it mean to be radioactive? Sample Multiple Choice Question: Geologists found rocks that contain parts of anima ...
Lobe-Fins
Lobe-Fins

... • The notochordNotochord – Is a longitudinal, flexible rod located between the digestive tube and the nerve cord – Provides skeletal support throughout most of the length of a chordate ...
VERTEBRATES Vertebrates are members of the larger phylum
VERTEBRATES Vertebrates are members of the larger phylum

... Reproduction Reproduction is the process by which a living organism is able to produce more of its own kind. The continuity of life on earth, from its origin to the present day, has been possible only because of reproduction. Living organisms reproduce in two ways—asexual and sexual reproduction. I ...
The ups and downs of sediments
The ups and downs of sediments

... has been punctuated by dramatic extinction events and by periods of enhanced biodiversification. The Ordovician period (from about 489 to 443 million years ago) witnessed one of the ‘Big Five’ mass extinctions in Earth history and also one of the most important intervals of biodiversification, with ...
Class IX Science Ch-07 Diversity in Living Organisms
Class IX Science Ch-07 Diversity in Living Organisms

... (b) Why whales are not grouped in the fishes? (c) What is bilateral symmetry? Ans: (a) (i) Lichens: Some fungal species live in permanent mutually dependent relationships with bluegreen algae. Such relationships are called symbiotic and the symbiotic life forms are called lichens. (ii) Cryptogamae: ...
CHAPTER 9: THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
CHAPTER 9: THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION

... have botanical and zoological classification schemes of a more shallow hierarchical structure, ones that are based on the most distinctive species of a local habitat and on the characteristics of plants and animals that humans can readily observe.5 Folk zoological classification schemes are exhibit ...
File
File

... Embryonic development can give indications of how related some organisms are to one  another. Differences in genetic make up do not become apparent until later in  development.    ...
DYNAMIC PLANET I
DYNAMIC PLANET I

... • All the Earth’s oceans have a continuous mountain range, called a mid-ocean ridge • Located above rising currents in the mantle convection cells • Stand high because they are heated by hot rising material which expands the rocks ...
Chapter Four – Earth Science
Chapter Four – Earth Science

... can form only if molten material hardens quickly after erupting under water. Scientists discovered that the rock that makes up the ocean floor lies in a pattern of magnetized strips. Lastly, the last piece of evidence came from rock samples, the farther from the ridge the rocks were taken, the older ...
Chapter 8: Geologic Time
Chapter 8: Geologic Time

... because the events of Precambrian history are not known in great enough detail  Also, ...
Most animals are invertebrates.
Most animals are invertebrates.

... water. Many invertebrates live inside other organisms. Most invertebrate animals are small. Crickets, oysters, sea stars, earthworms, ants, and spiders are some examples of invertebrates. The fact that invertebrates do not have backbones for support tends to limit their size. However, some ocean-dwe ...
File
File

... the matching of geological structures such as mountain ranges, and plants and animal fossils. What is a Fossil? ...
Destroying and Reconstructing Earth
Destroying and Reconstructing Earth

... so that the area where we are standing was under water. Or perhaps millions of years ago the sediments we are standing on were deposited 8100 feet lower in elevation, down below sea level. Let’’s reason through these two possibilities. The idea that the seas may have been 9000 feet deeper a few hund ...
outcomes - Linn-Benton Community College
outcomes - Linn-Benton Community College

... Biology: Science/Study of LIFE  What defines “Alive”: set of characteristics 1. Composed of cells with organized structure 2. Organized structure is actively maintained – homeostasis 3. Respond to stimuli from the environment 4. Acquire/use energy from the environment 5. Convert to usable form – GR ...
The Biology Of Annelids
The Biology Of Annelids

... jerking back into their tubes in response to a shadow. Many species of polychaetes are predators. A typical example of this type is the “mussel worm”, Nereis. To capture a prey, it inflates an eversible proboscis out of the mouth that is armed with piercing hooks. A few polychaete species, such as s ...
1. Evidence for the rearrangement of crustal plates and continental
1. Evidence for the rearrangement of crustal plates and continental

... The main continental plates of the earth’s crust are only about 60 km thick and “float” on the semi-liquid mantle layer underneath. As convection currents move within the mantle the crustal plates move slowly on the surface (up to 10 cm each year). Sometimes the plates bump into each other, e.g. Aus ...
Microsoft Word 97
Microsoft Word 97

... Only about 0.1% of the blood initially filtered out in the human kidneys is eventually removed as urine. In other words, a significant amount of resorption occurs. Why is it so important that this amount of resorption occur? ...
Part A - Board of Studies
Part A - Board of Studies

... culture dish may be responsible for the disease on the plant leaf. What steps would Koch have followed to determine this? 2 0 . Shown below are four homologous structures. How can they be used as evidence for the theory of evolution? ...
< 1 ... 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 ... 264 >

Evolutionary history of life



The evolutionary history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms have evolved since life appeared on the planet, until the present day. Earth formed about 4.5 Ga (billion years ago) and life appeared on its surface within 1 billion years. The similarities between all present-day organisms indicate the presence of a common ancestor from which all known species have diverged through the process of evolution. More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described.
  • studyres.com © 2026
  • DMCA
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Report