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Homework Evolution Name: Find an article about fossil records and write a brief summary. Emphasize how the findings in the article support the statement from NYS Core Curriculum “the Earth’s present-day species developed from earlier, distinctly different species.” 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Title of the article:____________________________________________________ Source of the article:_______________ Author:_________________________ Date_____________________________ Summary 6. How does the article support the statement “the Earth’s present-day species developed from earlier, distinctly different species”? Homework sample answer key Evolution Name: ______________ Find an article about fossil records and write a brief summary. Emphasize how the findings in the article support this statement from the NYS Core Curriculum: “the Earth’s present-day species developed from earlier, distinctly different species.” 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Title of the article:_____ Tiny T. rex fossil discovery startles scientists___ Source of the article:______cnn.com_________ Author:_________ Azadeh Ansari ________________ Date_____________Sept 2009________________ Summary Scientists found fossils that are thought to be ancestors of T.rex. They are called reptorex and have similar features with T.rex. The interesting thing is that their size is very small, a little bigger than humans. Researchers suspect that they lived 125 million years ago. On the other hand, T. rex is very big and lived 65 million years ago. The fossils of reptorex were found in China (Ansari, 2009). 6. How does the article support the statement “the Earth’s present-day species developed from earlier, distinctly different species”? The article says that T.rex is thought to be developed from earlier species, reptorex. We also assume that some present-day species, such as reptiles or birds, evolved from dinosaurs, such as T.rex. Reptorex, T.rex, and current birds and reptiles are different, distinct species from different ages. Therefore, the article supports the basic evolutionary theory that each species evolved from earlier, distinctly different species. Evolution Date: Name: Inquiry group activity handout 1 Picture of whales and whale-related species. (Students will cut out each picture to glue in the correct order onto the evolution handout 2) (Solomon, Berg, & Martin, 2008, p. 399) Evolution Date: ________________ Name: _______________ The genetic mechanism of evolution (new combinations of existing genes and mutations) Inquiry group activity handout 2 GLUE PICTURES (FROM OLDEST TO THE MOST RECENT) REASONS FOR YOUR CONCLUSION