1. The most common ways to organize information Hierarchic Cause/effect Comparison Sequence

2. Cause/effect

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4. Vary in speed and distance San Francisco, on North Amer. Plate moves southeast about 5 cm. per year If weighted down by continents move only a few millimeters per year Large Plates Movement varies in speed and distance Considered small, the Caribbean and Arabian Plates are fairly large Plates that lack landmasses move as much as several centimeters per year Small Plates Movement of Lithospheric Plates

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6. So what? What is important to understand about this? The evolution of Earth’s living things is strongly linked to movement of the lithospheric plates Plate Tectonics and Life on Earth Is about … The ability of living things to respond to changes in the environment Which then caused this … Basic Patterns Occur Over and Over Diversity Increases Or Decreases Diversity Decreases Diversity Increases Caused this … Living things respond to changes in order to survive Limits the types of living things with which a species can interact Animals that compete with the most success survive; the rest die out Big landmasses: animals can easily move to suitable places avoiding more challenging environments Small landmasses: animals adapt to local conditions, & are cut off from competitors & enemies This … Changes in the Environment Movement of plates causes changes in climate & geographic features When landmasses join together When landmasses spilt apart When landmasses split apart

7. Environmental Influences Biotic (Living) Factors AnimalsPlantsHumans Abiotic (Non-living) Factors ChemicalsLight & Heat Weather

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9. So what? What is important to understand about this? The evolution of Earth’s living things is strongly linked to movement of the lithospheric plates Plate Tectonics and Life on Earth Is about … The ability of living things to respond to changes in the environment Which led to this … Basic Patterns Occur Over and Over Diversity Increases OR Decreases Diversity Decreases Diversity Increases Caused this … Living things respond to changes in order to survive Limits the types of living things with which a species can interact Animals that compete with the most success survive; the rest die out Big landmasses: animals can easily move to suitable places avoiding more challenging environments Small landmasses: animals adapt to local conditions, & are cut off from competitors & enemies This … Changes in the Environment Movement of plates causes changes in climate & geographic features When landmasses join together When landmasses spilt apart When landmasses split apart

10. So what? What is important to understand about this? Photosynthesis is a series of reactions that uses energy from the sun to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars and oxygen Discovery of Photosynthesis Is about … how the experiments of Van Helmont, Priestley, and Ingenhousz reveal that in the presence of light, plants transform C 2 O and H 2 O into carbohydrates and release O 2. Which led to the … Jan Ingenhousz experiment  Led to the discovery that plants need light to produce oxygen  Performed Priestly’s experiment and discovered that the candle only remained lighted in the presence of light Caused the… John Priestly experiment  Led to the discovery of the oxygen portion of the photosynthesis equation  Placed a lit candle inside a jar, it burned out. Then, he place a mint leaf inside the jar and the candle remained lit because of the production of oxygen by the leaf This Van Helmont experiment  Led to the discovery of the “hydrate,” or water portion of the carbohydrate produced by photosynthesis  Created and experiment to find out if plants grew by taking material out of the soil – massed dry soil and a small seed, after five years the mass of the soil was the same  concluded that the mass of the plant gained came from the water, did not realize air changed it too

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