4. Exploiting new environments
Students learn to:
- outline the theory of evolution by natural selection
- outline evidence that present-day organisms have developed from different organisms in the distant past
- summarise the main evolutionary changes resulting from the selection of living things exhibiting features that allowed them to survive in terrestrial environment
- outline the major steps in the expansion to the terrestrial environments by land plants, amphibians and reptiles
- identify the advantages the terrestrial environment offered the first land plants and animals
Students:
- gather and analyse information from a geological time scale and secondary sources to identify and date the major evolutionary advances made by plants and animals
- gather information from secondary sources to summarise the features and distribution of some of the first land plants, amphibians and
reptiles - gather information from secondary sources to compare the diversity and numbers of organisms from a fossil site