Natural Selection and Adaptations

August 29, 2022

Purpose:

To show your understanding of natural selection and evolution.

Requirements:

Create a 5-10 square comic strip/ storyboard using Google Slides, MakeBeliefComixLinks to an external site., StoryboardTHATLinks to an external site., paper/pencil, or another teacher-approved tool that shows how natural selection and evolution can occur in a population of organisms.

The organisms can be real or ones that you create, but you cannot use beak size as your trait or any of the examples given below.

If using Google Slides, each slide is one comic/ storyboard square.

Use chat bubbles and captions to explain what is happening in each scene/square.

All the principles of natural selection must be present in your comic strip.

The principle of natural selection are

Organisms produce more offspring than can survive.

Differences or variations occur among individuals of a species.

Variations can be passed to offspring.

Some variations are helpful. Individuals with helpful variations survive and reproduce better than those individuals without these variations.

Overtime, the offspring with helpful variations make up more of the population and may eventually become a separate species.

You can choose any variation of your choice. Some examples of variations that you can use are.

Giraffe (neck)

Elephant (trunk)

Bird (Wing length)

Fish (camouflage)

Tree (height)

Flower (color or size)

Cite any information you used to create your comic strip, including pictures you searched on the internet.

Example = Author’s Last, First Name, “Title of Article/Name of Image” – Website Link

Here are a few examples to help you get started. Keep in mind, these are examples and may not fulfill your assignment requirements.

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