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Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
1.
MAIN QUESTION TO ANSWER THROUGHOUT VIDEO: What evidence
did Darwin
use to support his theory of evolution by natural selection? (You
may want to include the opposition that existed regarding each
point).
2.
What did most of Europe believe for about 2000 years about the origin of species?
3.
What was the name of the ship Darwin sailed around the world in?
4.
What is significant about the shapes of the tortoise shells in the Galapagos Islands?
5.
Who did Darwin send his specimens to, back in England?
6.
What did Darwin call the process by which species change?
7.
How is dog breeding similar to natural selection?
8.
What did Alfred Russel Wallace send Darwin in the mail?
9.
What was the name of Darwin’s book?
10.
What did people find scandalous about Darwin’s book?
11.
What can we deduce about a fossil found in sedimentary rock?
12.
What fossil that Richard Owen purchased, supported Darwin’s theory?
13.
How does the Hoatzin support Darwin’s theory?
14.
What does the platypus do that almost every other mammal does not?
15.
How did a bishop calculate the age of the earth?
16.
How does radioactive dating work?
17.
What is responsible for the distribution of similar species across the globe?
18.
How did the eye evolve?
FOLLOW UP:
1- Why did Darwin continue to research and push a hypothesis that was counter to the “known” science of the
time?
2- How did Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection impact his life?
3- How would you proceed if you just discovered something that is counter to everything that you thought to
be true, and you know your discovery is correct? Why would you behave this way?