Today we will be using the internet as a resource to review for tomorrow's test. There are several websites that I think will be very helpful in your review. Feel free to use them tonight as you review from home. Below is a list of topics that I will emphasize on the final exam. Some topics have links that you can follow, which will help you. You will spend the remainder of the period on these websites. If you are doing something other than reading about evolution, you will be assigned a detention and removed from the computer to go get an evolution book to read. You may print this page, but please do not print any other pages. I encourage you to take notes from the websites you read, though. I highly recommend reading all the way through the Evolution 101 website and taking the "quick quizzes" at the end of each section. We did not read through all of it the other day. On the quick quizzes, click on the student, read their question and then think of your answer. If you click on their question, you will read on possible good answer. Some of the questions on your test will come from these.

Your test will be mostly multiple choice, but you should be prepared to explain a few things in short paragraphs.

Topics to review for the Chapter 10 and 11 test

1. What historical ideas about the origins of life on earth were common before the 1700's?

2. Who were Lamarck and Darwin? How did their ideas change our thoughts on the origins of life?

3. Explain natural selection. What are the four main ideas of NS?

4. What are some common misconceptions about evolution? Can you distinguish between fact and misconception?

5. What evidence is there for life being very old (about 3-4 billion years)?

6. What evidence is there for a very old earth (about 6 billion years)?

7. What evidence is there for a very old universe?
See also Hubble telescope photos

8. What evidence is there for natural selection as the mechanism of evolution?

9. What do scientists mean when they use the following words: Hypothesis, Theory, Law? Give examples of each.

10. Explain Lamarck's mechanism for evolution. Could you distinguish between an explanation of an organism's adaptations written by Lamarck and one written by Darwin?

11. How did Mendel's work contribute to Darwin's views on natural selection?

12. Personal information about Darwin would make for a good extra credit question!

13. What is that genetic drift thing all about? (Run the simulation if you have time)

14. What order did organisms evolve in? Would you expect to see mammals on the phylogenetic tree closer to amphibians or owls?

15. Does evolution point all organisms up the evolutionary ladder? Are we more evolved than other organisms? Have we progressed farther than other organisms?