11th Grade Biology

Life on our planet has a long and fascinating history… today your job is to investigate some important moments or stages in that history and put them in order.

1. In what order did vertebrates appear on Earth?

http://animals.about.com/od/evolution/a/vertebrateevolu.htm

http://vertebrates.voices.wooster.edu/

2. What is the significance of the archaeopteryx?

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/archaeopteryx.html

http://www.livescience.com/24745-archaeopteryx.html

3. What relationship exists between the apparition of plants and animals?

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/history-of-life-on-earth/the-diversification-of-life/v/first-living-things-on-land-clarification

http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2001-news/Hedges8-2001.htm

4. When did humans appear?

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/science/when-humans-became-human.html

http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/mod_homo_4.htm

5. Relate the era of the dinosaurs with the emergence of humans:

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/history-of-life-on-earth/the-diversification-of-life/v/human-evolution-overview

http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=2152

http://www.icr.org/men-dinosaurs/