Evolution+Web+Quest+Instructions

Title your page Evolution Web Quest --- and write your name.

 Summarize his four main arguments of  Charles Darwin's Theory on the Origin Species  on a sheet of paper. Darwin's Ideas[| Darwin's Ideas] 1. 2. 3. 4. According to the site above, what does “survival of the fittest” mean? __http://itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/histgeol/paleo2/homol1.htm__ Use the site above to explain what homologous structures are. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section2.html Use the site above to explain what are vestigial structures? Give three examples shown at this web site. 1. 2. 3.

Review the link to help answer how do analogous structures evolve? http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/similarity_hs_07

Do you think that sharks' and dolphins' similarities <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(body shape, fin, and flippers) are homologies or analogies?

<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">List 3 ways homologous features mouse and an alligator share 1. 2. 3.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Considering all of the evidence, are the "wings" (actually flaps of skin stretched between the legs) of sugar gliders and flying squirrels homologous or analogous structures?

Summarize what you have learned about the evidence for evolution.