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HONORS EVOLUTION I - REVIEW SHEET
Level of Understanding
Objectives
1. __ Describe and apply the taxonomic system of Carl Linnaeus to a
group of organisms and explain his motivation for classification.
2. __ Develop an evolutionary tree for a group of organisms using
knowledge of it taxonomic relationship, and interpret the tree
from the contrary perspectives of Linnaeus and Darwin.
3. __ Define fossil, explain how and where they form, and discuss the
importance of fossils in support of evolution.
4. __ Give detailed examples of specific transitional fossils important in
the development of animals, including when these transitioned
occurred, the evidence for the transition, and the possible
evolutionary pressures that fostered the transition.
5. __ Give detailed examples of specific extinction events important in
the history of life, including when these extinction events
occurred, the evidence for the event, and the effect on evolution.
6. __ Outline the geologic time scale, including the eras and their time
frames, periods (especially of the Paleozoic), and important
radiations, extinctions, geologic, and climatic changes.
7. __ Contrast relative and absolute dating, describe the process of
absolute dating, and determine the age of a rock layer given
appropriate background data.
8. __ Describe the fossil evidence associated with human evolution,
including where such fossils are found, the names and physical
and behavioral characteristics of previous hominid species, and
their possible relation to modern humans.
9. __ Sketch, label, and discuss the evolution history of plants and
animals using an evolutionary tree.
10. __ Discuss Alfred Wegener’s concept of continental drift, the
supporting evidence, and why it was not accepted by science at
the time.
11. __ Define plate tectonics, describe the mechanisms by which plates
move and the evidence that supports this mechanism.
12. __ Give a detailed example of the geologic history of the Hawaiian
islands, identify whether this supports catastrophism or
uniformity, and explain how this history has been important in the
evolution of fruit flies.
13. __ Define species, contrast the morphological and biological species
concepts, and name and discuss the most common process by
which speciation occurs.
14. __ Define reproductive isolation, and name and discuss the different
pre-zygotic and post-zygotic mechanisms through which such
isolation can occur.
15. __ Give a detailed example of speciation in the Ensatina complex of
salamanders in California
17. __ Explain why observations of island ecosystems were important in
the development of Darwin and Wallace’s concept of natural
selection.
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Vocabulary
__ Carl Linnaeus
__ taxonomy
__ kingdom
__ phylum
__ class
__ order
__ family
__ genus
__ species
__ evolutionary tree
__ phylogenetic tree
__ cladogram
__ Charles Darwin
__ common ancestry
__ homologous structures
__ natural selection
__ fossil
__ sedimentary rock
__ erosion
__ relative dating
__ paleontology
__ geologic time scale
__ transitional fossils
__ stramatolites
__ whale evolution
__ tetrapod evolution
__ Cambrian explosion
__ animal evolution
__ Permian extinction
__ Mesozoic extinction
__ K-T boundary
__ extinction
__ evolutionary radiation
__ index fossils
__ Precambrian era
__ prokaryotes
__ eukaryotes
__ unicellular
__ multicellular
__ Paleozoic era
__ Cambrian period
__ Ordovician period
__ Silurian period
__ Devonian period
__ Carboniferous period
__ Permian
__ marine invertebrates
__ fishes
__ amphibians
__ terrestrial insects
__ reptiles
__algae
__ mosses
__ ferns
__ coniferous plants
__ Mesozoic era
__ Jurassic period
__ Triassic period
__ Cretaceous period
__ reptiles
__ dinosaurs
__ flowering plants
__ Chicxulub crater
__ Yucitan peninsula
__ Cenozoic era
__ mammals
__ Glaciation
__ radioactive elements
__ parent material
__ daughter material
__ radioactive decay
__ neutrons
__ isotopes
__ half-life
__ metamorphic rock
__ superposition
__ cross cutting
__ hominid
__ Australopithecus afarensis
__ southern ape
__ Lucy
__ Donald Johansen
__ knee joint
__ fossil footprints
__ arch
__ Richard & Mary Leakey
__ vegetarian
__ Homo habilis
__ handy man
__ brain capacity
__ scavenging
__ stone tools
__ Homo erectus
__ upright man
__ out of Africa
__ fire
__ Homo sapiens
__ thinking man
__ culture
__ art
__ Alfred Wegener
__ continental drift
__ plate tectonics
__ ridges
__ trenches
__ seafloor spreading
__ subduction zone
__ magnetic striping
__ hot spot
__ Hawaiian islands
__ drosophila fruit flies
__ polytene chromosomes
__ chromosome inversion
__ species
__ morphological species
__ biological species
__ speciation
__ allopatric speciation
__ geographic barrier
__ reproductive isolation
__ pre-zygotic mechanisms
__ temporal isolation
__ ecological isolation
__ behavioral isolation
__ mechanical isolation
__ post-zygotic mechanisms
__ hybrid inviability
__ hybrid sterility
__ subspecies
__ ring species
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