Biodiversity and Evolution

​BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION

​Standards

Chapter 3: Biodiversity and Evolution

Demonstrate understanding of how changes in the environment may affect species extinction

​Content

Make a multimedia presentation of a timeline of extinction of representative microorganisms, plants, and animals

Performance

​Learning Competencies

• Trace and explain the evolution of life forms on Earth

• Appreciate the existence of diverse forms of living things; and

• relates species extinction to the failure of populations of organisms to adopt to abrupt changes in the environment.​

refer to all of the species in one region or ecosystem

Chapter 3

Biodiversity

Change in the inherited characteristics of biological population over successive generation

Chapter 3

Evolution

​Biological Evolution

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