Download Name Date Period ~ Do Now ~ Mice are created when sunlight

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~ Do Now ~
Mice are created when sunlight heats wheat. TRUE
FALSE (circle one)
Maggots (baby flies) are created when flies land on meat and lay there eggs on it. TRUE
Birds need a leader to fly in a flock. TRUE
Life is made of:
CELLS
CLAY
FALSE (circle one)
FALSE (circle one)
(circle one)
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Do Now ~
Match the words with the examples
EMERGENCE
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION:
Mice being created by sunlight heating grain. Maggots being created out of meat left out in the heat.
These used to be seen as evidence for _______________________________________________
Birds flying in formation in a flock. Fish swimming in a school. Sand forming ripple marks at the beach.
These are examples of order coming from complexity, which is _______________________________
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~ Do Now
Mice being created by sunlight heating grain. Maggots being created out of meat left out in the heat.
These were seen as evidence for _______________________________________________
Birds flying in formation in a flock. Fish swimming in a school. Sand forming ripple marks at the beach.
These are examples of order coming from complexity, which is _______________________________
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~~ Do Now~~
How was Spontaneous Generation discredited? Why do we now have to revisit it?
Propose an example of Emergence
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Movie Understanding Checkup~
1) 22 year old Stanley Miller did an experiment to see if building blocks of life could form from the early earth
environment. Circle the example of what showed that those building blocks could be formed:
A) The lab didn’t blow up
C) The water condensed.
B) Amino acids and other organic molecules formed.
D) The electrodes sparked with electricity
2) What evidence do we have that organic molecules can form in outer space?
A) Stanley Miller was visited by aliens.
C) Meteors have fallen to earth with amino acids in them
B) The Sun is made of hydrogen, helium and other elements
D) There are organic molecules in the space shuttle
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~ Movie Understanding Checkup ~
Scientists believe that life may have started: Circle THREE of these
In warm water
Deep underground
In the sun
Deep under the ocean
In a laboratory
On the top of a mountain
In a bottle full of dirty cloth and wheat.
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~ Movie Understanding Checkup
1) 22 year old Stanley Miller did an experiment to see if building blocks of life could form from the early earth
environment. WHAT EVIDENCE DID HE FIND?
2) What evidence do we have that organic molecules can form in outer space?
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~~ Movie Understanding Checkup ~~
What evidence have scientists found to support the ideas that life may have formed at each of these:
Warm primordial pool of water.
Deep under the sea at hydrothermal vents.
On the surfaces of clay minerals