Bell Ringer: What are reasons why animals like wooly mammoths and saber tooth tigers aren’t

around anymore?

What is “Natural Selection”?

No cheating!!You must get 20 beans to surviveIf you die, you can only be a new tipple of an

existing tippleStop when you get to 20When time is called put your mouth-part

down.

Game Rules

Tong Chopstick Clothespin Spoon

Start

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Our Tipple Population

• What trends do you see?

What do you infer happens to real animals that cannot compete as well as others?

Can you think of any real-life examples of the tipple, where one kind of animal has an advantage over another?

Discussion

In England, two kinds of peppered moth existed: light and dark.

After the industrial revolution, trees turned dark from soot. Which one do you think camouflaged better? Light or dark?

Peppered moths

Natural Selection is the process through which organisms with better adaptations for their environment live longer, compete better and reproduce more than organisms without those adaptations.

You may have heard this described as “survival of the fittest”

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Sometimes new species are introduced to an area and they take over. Why do you think this happens?

Discussion Continued

Natural Selection is the process through which organisms with better adaptations for their environment live longer, compete better and reproduce more than organisms without those adaptations.

You may have heard this described as “survival of the fittest”

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If only the “fittest” survive, how do we have so many variations among species? For example, how can there be so many kinds of birds in Florida?

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In the beginning we had only 2 spoon-mouthed tipples, but in the end we had lots. How can natural selection explain this? Write your answer in 1-2 sentences and hand to me at the door.

Exit Ticket

Natural SelectionIn your own words, what is natural selection?

Natural Selection is the process through which organisms with better adaptations for their environment live longer, compete better and reproduce more than organisms without those adaptations.

Natural Selection

There are already variations in the population due to our different traits.

Can you think of a trait that an animal in the arctic would want to have?

What about an animal in the desert?

Natural Selection

Game: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/evolution-action.html

What happened to the creatures as the background changes?

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1. There are already variations in a population

2. Some of those variations are beneficial for the organism

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3. The remaining organisms reproduce

4. Over many generations of birdseating beetles, the brown beetles are more common.

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http://media.hhmi.org/fittest/natural_selection.html

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