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UNDERSTANDING NATURAL-SELECTION - QUIZ:
Keywords: |'natural-selection', 'fitness', 'alleles', 'genetics', 'evolution', adaption, 'fair test'
THIS IS A QUIZ - IT IS NOT A TEST
The purpose of the QUIZ is to encourage students to research answers for themselves and then have an opportunity to get guidance from their friends and from their teacher.
Questions are designed to encourage students to:
- Explore and describe relationships between adaption and environment
- Explore and describe effect of natural-selection on an organism
- Identify and describe the concept of biological 'fitness'
- Explore identify and describe the the difference between
- Experiment and observe changing environments affect adaption
- Ask BIG questions
The questions are based on the Berkeley University - Natural Selection Misconceptions Diagnostic:
Getting Started:
At the end of this section you will find a link to an on-line QUIZ.
When starting out, students are NOT expected to be able to answer many of the QUIZ questions correctly - if any at all.
As the course progresses and knowledge increases, students will have additional opportunities to test their new understanding about each of the questions.
Parents and teachers may point students to related information; do not tell them the answers.
Please read the next few lines before you try the QUIZ:
- For each question, there is one or more on-line videos that you should watch that will help you understand the question better and will help you select the correct answers.
- Many of the questions include 'interactive' and/or 'simulator' software.
- After you have worked through the questions, videos and simulators, attempt the QUIZ again (you may attempt the QUIZ as many times as you like).
- If you do get any answers wrong, then check out the videos and interactives and ask your friends and teachers for help.
- Do the videos or ideas that they raise give you any ideas about experiments that you would like to try yourself?
- If you find any interesting videos or links, make a note of them so that you can share them in class,
- Make a note in the DISCUSSION sections for questions that you would like to discuss or that you would like answered in class.
Before you start, take some time out, to consider the video(s) about evolution:
Video 1. What is Natural selection?
- IF UNABLE TO ACCESS YOUTUBE VIDEO (requires Flash) TRY:What is Natural Selection
Video 2. Natural selection - Stated Clearly?
- IF UNABLE TO ACCESS YOUTUBE VIDEO (requires Flash) TRY:Natural Selection - Stated Clearly
Video 3. What is the evidence for evolution?
- IF UNABLE TO ACCESS YOUTUBE VIDEO (requires Flash) TRY:Evolution - Stated Clearly
COMPLETE THE QUIZ FIRST - THEN LEARN MORE HERE:
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- Answer the questions recommend by your teacher - or as many questions as you can.
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- Get more clues to help you understand & answer each question in the QUIZ
- Clues include videos, explanations, discussions & simple experiments.
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- Learn all about the core topics: The science of evolution and natural-selection
- Learning resources include videos, formal explanations, maths and examples.
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- Activities that provide opportunities for discovery and deeper understanding
- Each activity is focused on a particular QUIZ question
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- Science PROJECTS focused on the quiz topics - beginner to advanced.