Week 31 - Biology
Connecting Climate Change & Evolution
At this point, you should know how to describe evolution and the mechanisms that give rise to population at the population level. You should also know the data surrounding climate change and how these tipping points describe points of catastrophic change within the environment. This week, we’ll discuss how climate change occurs at such a rate to ultimately create extinction events.
BY THE END OF THIS WEEK, you should be able to:
define evolution and climate change,
compare the five mechanisms of evolution,
describe misconceptions associated with climate change,
analyze evidence associated with climate change,
describe how people in different places on the planet are affected by climate change in different ways, and
discuss solutions to solve climate change, and
describe how time plays such an integral factor in connecting these two concepts together.
Your Week Ahead
Day 1: Thermometer
I’ll start class with reviewing everyone’s journals, then we’ll organize our climate notes and build a thermometer describing future events.
After class, you should be finalizing your paper!
Day 2: The Final Tipping Point
Today, we’ll review what occurs on the planet when the world reaches between 4 and 6 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels, then connect these essential points to our discussion surrounding evolutionary theory.
We’ll then talk about how the quizzes will work out beginning next week.
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IMPORTANT DATES
.Quizzes beginning Day 2 of next week on Organismal Diversity.
You’ll be scheduling when to take these over the next two weeks.
All quizzes include:
Quiz 1: Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes
Quiz 2: Archaea & Bacteria
Quiz 3: Protists
Quiz 4: Fungi
Quiz 5: Plants
Quiz 6: Taxonomy/Phylogeny of Plants
Quiz 7: Animals
Quiz 8: Taxonomy/Phylogeny of Animals
Quiz 9: Characteristics of Life & Viruses
Did you…?
… finish your paper?
… begin studying for your quizzes at the end of the week?