Today’s Topic Evolution: Succession

Today's Topic Evolution: Succession

Learning Goal: SWBAT differentiate between primary and secondary succession, and predict how a community will return to a state of equilibrium.

Have a seat and take out your notebooks.

I will pass out a study guide momentarily.

Homework

Complete the Simulating Adaptations Lab (Three Days Late)

Complete cattle, cows, and dogs articles. (Five Days Late)

Upcoming Test

Our next test will take place on Friday, 4/17.

It will cover all of Evolution: Biological Evolution Natural Selection Artificial Selection Adaptations Extinction Succession

After the Disasters

What percentage of life constitutes a "mass-extinction event"?

What happened during the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event?

How does the world even begin to recover after such a horrible catastrophe?

After the Disasters

The answer lies within Ecological Succession.

Ecological succession refers to the somewhat predictable series of changes over time that a community will experience after a disturbance.

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