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EarthComm Earth System Evolution: Changing Life and Your Community, Activity 5

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students understand that many different plants and animals evolved and became extinct during the Phanerozoic; recognize that plant and animal fossil assemblages of the very deep geologic past are unlike organisms alive today; describe the variety of plants and animals that once lived in your community; relate the increases and decreases in the numbers of different organisms during the Phanerozoic to geologic causes; describe several lines of fossil evidence to support the theory of evolution based on the fossil record.

EarthComm Earth System Evolution: Changing Life and Your Community, Activity 4

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students understand how changes in the Earth's climate have affected organisms throughout geologic time; understand that organisms that dominate the continents today differ from the organisms that dominated the Earth in the deep geologic past; understand that severe ecological disruptions alter the history of life, resulting in extinction followed by the evolution and appearance of new organisms; understand that newly evolved organisms develop similar body features that allow them to use the same resources as those organisms that became extinct.

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